Revision 50338b889dc504c69e0cb316ac92d1b9e51f3c8a authored by Török Edwin on 15 June 2011, 21:06:14 UTC, committed by Al Viro on 16 June 2011, 15:27:39 UTC
Git bisection shows that commit e6bc45d65df8599fdbae73be9cec4ceed274db53 causes
BUG_ONs under high I/O load:

kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:1368!
[ 2862.501007] Call Trace:
[ 2862.501007]  [<ffffffff811691d8>] d_kill+0xf8/0x140
[ 2862.501007]  [<ffffffff81169c19>] dput+0xc9/0x190
[ 2862.501007]  [<ffffffff8115577f>] fput+0x15f/0x210
[ 2862.501007]  [<ffffffff81152171>] filp_close+0x61/0x90
[ 2862.501007]  [<ffffffff81152251>] sys_close+0xb1/0x110
[ 2862.501007]  [<ffffffff814c14fb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

A reliable way to reproduce this bug is:
Login to KDE, run 'rsnapshot sync', and apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk,
and apt-get remove openjdk-6-jdk.

The buggy part of the patch is this:
	struct inode *inode = NULL;
.....
-               if (nd.last.name[nd.last.len])
-                       goto slashes;
                inode = dentry->d_inode;
-               if (inode)
-                       ihold(inode);
+               if (nd.last.name[nd.last.len] || !inode)
+                       goto slashes;
+               ihold(inode)
...
	if (inode)
		iput(inode);	/* truncate the inode here */

If nd.last.name[nd.last.len] is nonzero (and thus goto slashes branch is taken),
and dentry->d_inode is non-NULL, then this code now does an additional iput on
the inode, which is wrong.

Fix this by only setting the inode variable if nd.last.name[nd.last.len] is 0.

Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/15/50
Reported-by: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Reported-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Kbuild
#
# Kbuild for top-level directory of the kernel
# This file takes care of the following:
# 1) Generate bounds.h
# 2) Generate asm-offsets.h (may need bounds.h)
# 3) Check for missing system calls

#####
# 1) Generate bounds.h

bounds-file := include/generated/bounds.h

always  := $(bounds-file)
targets := $(bounds-file) kernel/bounds.s

quiet_cmd_bounds = GEN     $@
define cmd_bounds
	(set -e; \
	 echo "#ifndef __LINUX_BOUNDS_H__"; \
	 echo "#define __LINUX_BOUNDS_H__"; \
	 echo "/*"; \
	 echo " * DO NOT MODIFY."; \
	 echo " *"; \
	 echo " * This file was generated by Kbuild"; \
	 echo " *"; \
	 echo " */"; \
	 echo ""; \
	 sed -ne $(sed-y) $<; \
	 echo ""; \
	 echo "#endif" ) > $@
endef

# We use internal kbuild rules to avoid the "is up to date" message from make
kernel/bounds.s: kernel/bounds.c FORCE
	$(Q)mkdir -p $(dir $@)
	$(call if_changed_dep,cc_s_c)

$(obj)/$(bounds-file): kernel/bounds.s Kbuild
	$(Q)mkdir -p $(dir $@)
	$(call cmd,bounds)

#####
# 2) Generate asm-offsets.h
#

offsets-file := include/generated/asm-offsets.h

always  += $(offsets-file)
targets += $(offsets-file)
targets += arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.s


# Default sed regexp - multiline due to syntax constraints
define sed-y
	"/^->/{s:->#\(.*\):/* \1 */:; \
	s:^->\([^ ]*\) [\$$#]*\([-0-9]*\) \(.*\):#define \1 \2 /* \3 */:; \
	s:^->\([^ ]*\) [\$$#]*\([^ ]*\) \(.*\):#define \1 \2 /* \3 */:; \
	s:->::; p;}"
endef

quiet_cmd_offsets = GEN     $@
define cmd_offsets
	(set -e; \
	 echo "#ifndef __ASM_OFFSETS_H__"; \
	 echo "#define __ASM_OFFSETS_H__"; \
	 echo "/*"; \
	 echo " * DO NOT MODIFY."; \
	 echo " *"; \
	 echo " * This file was generated by Kbuild"; \
	 echo " *"; \
	 echo " */"; \
	 echo ""; \
	 sed -ne $(sed-y) $<; \
	 echo ""; \
	 echo "#endif" ) > $@
endef

# We use internal kbuild rules to avoid the "is up to date" message from make
arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.s: arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.c \
                                      $(obj)/$(bounds-file) FORCE
	$(Q)mkdir -p $(dir $@)
	$(call if_changed_dep,cc_s_c)

$(obj)/$(offsets-file): arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.s Kbuild
	$(call cmd,offsets)

#####
# 3) Check for missing system calls
#

quiet_cmd_syscalls = CALL    $<
      cmd_syscalls = $(CONFIG_SHELL) $< $(CC) $(c_flags)

PHONY += missing-syscalls
missing-syscalls: scripts/checksyscalls.sh FORCE
	$(call cmd,syscalls)

# Keep these two files during make clean
no-clean-files := $(bounds-file) $(offsets-file)
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