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block: replace __getblk_slow misfix by grow_dev_page fix 

Commit 91f68c89d8 ("block: fix infinite loop in __getblk_slow")
is not good: a successful call to grow_buffers() cannot guarantee
that the page won't be reclaimed before the immediate next call to
__find_get_block(), which is why there was always a loop there.

Yesterday I got "EXT4-fs error (device loop0): __ext4_get_inode_loc:3595:
inode #19278: block 664: comm cc1: unable to read itable block" on console,
which pointed to this commit.

I've been trying to bisect for weeks, why kbuild-on-ext4-on-loop-on-tmpfs
sometimes fails from a missing header file, under memory pressure on
ppc G5.  I've never seen this on x86, and I've never seen it on 3.5-rc7
itself, despite that commit being in there: bisection pointed to an
irrelevant pinctrl merge, but hard to tell when failure takes between
18 minutes and 38 hours (but so far it's happened quicker on 3.6-rc2).

(I've since found such __ext4_get_inode_loc errors in /var/log/messages
from previous weeks: why the message never appeared on console until
yesterday morning is a mystery for another day.)

Revert 91f68c89d8, restoring __getblk_slow() to how it was (plus
a checkpatch nitfix).  Simplify the interface between grow_buffers()
and grow_dev_page(), and avoid the infinite loop beyond end of device
by instead checking init_page_buffers()'s end_block there (I presume
that's more efficient than a repeated call to blkdev_max_block()),
returning -ENXIO to __getblk_slow() in that case.

And remove akpm's ten-year-old "__getblk() cannot fail ... weird"
comment, but that is worrying: are all users of __getblk() really
now prepared for a NULL bh beyond end of device, or will some oops??

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.0 3.2 3.4 3.5
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Hugh Dickins 2012-08-23 12:17:36 +02:00 committed by Jens Axboe
parent 79df9b40b3
commit 676ce6d5ca
1 changed files with 30 additions and 36 deletions
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@ -914,7 +914,7 @@ link_dev_buffers(struct page *page, struct buffer_head *head)
/*
* Initialise the state of a blockdev page's buffers.
*/
static void
static sector_t
init_page_buffers(struct page *page, struct block_device *bdev,
sector_t block, int size)
{
@ -936,33 +936,41 @@ init_page_buffers(struct page *page, struct block_device *bdev,
block++;
bh = bh->b_this_page;
} while (bh != head);
/*
* Caller needs to validate requested block against end of device.
*/
return end_block;
}
/*
* Create the page-cache page that contains the requested block.
*
* This is user purely for blockdev mappings.
* This is used purely for blockdev mappings.
*/
static struct page *
static int
grow_dev_page(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block,
pgoff_t index, int size)
pgoff_t index, int size, int sizebits)
{
struct inode *inode = bdev->bd_inode;
struct page *page;
struct buffer_head *bh;
sector_t end_block;
int ret = 0; /* Will call free_more_memory() */
page = find_or_create_page(inode->i_mapping, index,
(mapping_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping) & ~__GFP_FS)|__GFP_MOVABLE);
if (!page)
return NULL;
return ret;
BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
if (page_has_buffers(page)) {
bh = page_buffers(page);
if (bh->b_size == size) {
init_page_buffers(page, bdev, block, size);
return page;
end_block = init_page_buffers(page, bdev,
index << sizebits, size);
goto done;
}
if (!try_to_free_buffers(page))
goto failed;
@ -982,14 +990,14 @@ grow_dev_page(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block,
*/
spin_lock(&inode->i_mapping->private_lock);
link_dev_buffers(page, bh);
init_page_buffers(page, bdev, block, size);
end_block = init_page_buffers(page, bdev, index << sizebits, size);
spin_unlock(&inode->i_mapping->private_lock);
return page;
done:
ret = (block < end_block) ? 1 : -ENXIO;
failed:
unlock_page(page);
page_cache_release(page);
return NULL;
return ret;
}
/*
@ -999,7 +1007,6 @@ failed:
static int
grow_buffers(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, int size)
{
struct page *page;
pgoff_t index;
int sizebits;
@ -1023,22 +1030,14 @@ grow_buffers(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, int size)
bdevname(bdev, b));
return -EIO;
}
block = index << sizebits;
/* Create a page with the proper size buffers.. */
page = grow_dev_page(bdev, block, index, size);
if (!page)
return 0;
unlock_page(page);
page_cache_release(page);
return 1;
return grow_dev_page(bdev, block, index, size, sizebits);
}
static struct buffer_head *
__getblk_slow(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, int size)
{
int ret;
struct buffer_head *bh;
/* Size must be multiple of hard sectorsize */
if (unlikely(size & (bdev_logical_block_size(bdev)-1) ||
(size < 512 || size > PAGE_SIZE))) {
@ -1051,21 +1050,20 @@ __getblk_slow(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, int size)
return NULL;
}
retry:
bh = __find_get_block(bdev, block, size);
if (bh)
return bh;
for (;;) {
struct buffer_head *bh;
int ret;
ret = grow_buffers(bdev, block, size);
if (ret == 0) {
free_more_memory();
goto retry;
} else if (ret > 0) {
bh = __find_get_block(bdev, block, size);
if (bh)
return bh;
ret = grow_buffers(bdev, block, size);
if (ret < 0)
return NULL;
if (ret == 0)
free_more_memory();
}
return NULL;
}
/*
@ -1321,10 +1319,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__find_get_block);
* which corresponds to the passed block_device, block and size. The
* returned buffer has its reference count incremented.
*
* __getblk() cannot fail - it just keeps trying. If you pass it an
* illegal block number, __getblk() will happily return a buffer_head
* which represents the non-existent block. Very weird.
*
* __getblk() will lock up the machine if grow_dev_page's try_to_free_buffers()
* attempt is failing. FIXME, perhaps?
*/