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1 files changed, 31 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
index a0512700542..bfc70f57900 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
@@ -1727,6 +1727,21 @@ static int journal_unmap_buffer(journal_t *journal, struct buffer_head *bh)
if (!jh)
goto zap_buffer_no_jh;
+ /*
+ * We cannot remove the buffer from checkpoint lists until the
+ * transaction adding inode to orphan list (let's call it T)
+ * is committed. Otherwise if the transaction changing the
+ * buffer would be cleaned from the journal before T is
+ * committed, a crash will cause that the correct contents of
+ * the buffer will be lost. On the other hand we have to
+ * clear the buffer dirty bit at latest at the moment when the
+ * transaction marking the buffer as freed in the filesystem
+ * structures is committed because from that moment on the
+ * buffer can be reallocated and used by a different page.
+ * Since the block hasn't been freed yet but the inode has
+ * already been added to orphan list, it is safe for us to add
+ * the buffer to BJ_Forget list of the newest transaction.
+ */
transaction = jh->b_transaction;
if (transaction == NULL) {
/* First case: not on any transaction. If it
@@ -1783,16 +1798,15 @@ static int journal_unmap_buffer(journal_t *journal, struct buffer_head *bh)
} else if (transaction == journal->j_committing_transaction) {
JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "on committing transaction");
/*
- * If it is committing, we simply cannot touch it. We
- * can remove it's next_transaction pointer from the
- * running transaction if that is set, but nothing
- * else. */
+ * The buffer is committing, we simply cannot touch
+ * it. So we just set j_next_transaction to the
+ * running transaction (if there is one) and mark
+ * buffer as freed so that commit code knows it should
+ * clear dirty bits when it is done with the buffer.
+ */
set_buffer_freed(bh);
- if (jh->b_next_transaction) {
- J_ASSERT(jh->b_next_transaction ==
- journal->j_running_transaction);
- jh->b_next_transaction = NULL;
- }
+ if (journal->j_running_transaction && buffer_jbddirty(bh))
+ jh->b_next_transaction = journal->j_running_transaction;
jbd2_journal_put_journal_head(jh);
spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock);
jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh);
@@ -1969,7 +1983,7 @@ void jbd2_journal_file_buffer(struct journal_head *jh,
*/
void __jbd2_journal_refile_buffer(struct journal_head *jh)
{
- int was_dirty;
+ int was_dirty, jlist;
struct buffer_head *bh = jh2bh(jh);
J_ASSERT_JH(jh, jbd_is_locked_bh_state(bh));
@@ -1991,8 +2005,13 @@ void __jbd2_journal_refile_buffer(struct journal_head *jh)
__jbd2_journal_temp_unlink_buffer(jh);
jh->b_transaction = jh->b_next_transaction;
jh->b_next_transaction = NULL;
- __jbd2_journal_file_buffer(jh, jh->b_transaction,
- jh->b_modified ? BJ_Metadata : BJ_Reserved);
+ if (buffer_freed(bh))
+ jlist = BJ_Forget;
+ else if (jh->b_modified)
+ jlist = BJ_Metadata;
+ else
+ jlist = BJ_Reserved;
+ __jbd2_journal_file_buffer(jh, jh->b_transaction, jlist);
J_ASSERT_JH(jh, jh->b_transaction->t_state == T_RUNNING);
if (was_dirty)