Btrfs devel - Mar 2010 - [PATCH 1/2] Btrfs: remove bad fsync transaction check

This check for a user transaction is a bogus: fsync() with an open user
transaction is verboten.  If the caller is the same process who started
a user transaction, and this is a different file, we will deadlock.  If
it''s the same file, this check means we won''t deadlock, but
the
transaction will be prematurely closed out.

Any user transaction ioctl users should be careful to avoid fsync() and
close out the transaction explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
---
 fs/btrfs/file.c |    6 ------
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/file.c b/fs/btrfs/file.c
index d146dde..2e6404f 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/file.c
@@ -1097,12 +1097,6 @@ int btrfs_sync_file(struct file *file, struct dentry
*dentry, int datasync)
 	}
 	mutex_unlock(&root->fs_info->trans_mutex);
 
-	/*
-	 * ok we haven''t committed the transaction yet, lets do a commit
-	 */
-	if (file && file->private_data)
-		btrfs_ioctl_trans_end(file);
-
 	trans = btrfs_start_transaction(root, 1);
 	if (!trans) {
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
-- 
1.7.0

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Print a warning to the console when a btrfs ioctl transaction prematurely
commits a possibly partial result.

Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
---
 fs/btrfs/file.c |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/file.c b/fs/btrfs/file.c
index 2e6404f..33975e7 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/file.c
@@ -1046,8 +1046,11 @@ int btrfs_release_file(struct inode *inode, struct file
*filp)
 		if (inode->i_size > BTRFS_ORDERED_OPERATIONS_FLUSH_LIMIT)
 			filemap_flush(inode->i_mapping);
 	}
-	if (filp->private_data)
+	if (filp->private_data) {
+		pr_warning("aborted btrfs user transaction, committing "
+			   "partial result\n");
 		btrfs_ioctl_trans_end(filp);
+	}
 	return 0;
 }
 
-- 
1.7.0

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