This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
wake up s_wait_unfrozen when ->freeze_fs fails
to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
wake-up-s_wait_unfrozen-when-freeze_fs-fails.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From e1616300a20c80396109c1cf013ba9a36055a3da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kazuya Mio <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 16:51:07 +0900
Subject: wake up s_wait_unfrozen when ->freeze_fs fails
From: Kazuya Mio <[email protected]>
commit e1616300a20c80396109c1cf013ba9a36055a3da upstream.
dd slept infinitely when fsfeeze failed because of EIO.
To fix this problem, if ->freeze_fs fails, freeze_super() wakes up
the tasks waiting for the filesystem to become unfrozen.
When s_frozen isn't SB_UNFROZEN in __generic_file_aio_write(),
the function sleeps until FITHAW ioctl wakes up s_wait_unfrozen.
However, if ->freeze_fs fails, s_frozen is set to SB_UNFROZEN and then
freeze_super() returns an error number. In this case, FITHAW ioctl returns
EINVAL because s_frozen is already SB_UNFROZEN. There is no way to wake up
s_wait_unfrozen, so __generic_file_aio_write() sleeps infinitely.
Signed-off-by: Kazuya Mio <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
fs/super.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -1009,6 +1009,8 @@ int freeze_super(struct super_block *sb)
printk(KERN_ERR
"VFS:Filesystem freeze failed\n");
sb->s_frozen = SB_UNFROZEN;
+ smp_wmb();
+ wake_up(&sb->s_wait_unfrozen);
deactivate_locked_super(sb);
return ret;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.0/wake-up-s_wait_unfrozen-when-freeze_fs-fails.patch
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