Ocfs2 devel - Feb 2023 - + ocfs2-fix-defrag-path-triggering-jbd2-assert.patch added to mm-hotfixes-unstable branch

The patch titled
     Subject: ocfs2: fix defrag path triggering jbd2 ASSERT
has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     ocfs2-fix-defrag-path-triggering-jbd2-assert.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
    
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/ocfs2-fix-defrag-path-triggering-jbd2-assert.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Heming Zhao via Ocfs2-devel <ocfs2-devel at oss.oracle.com>
Subject: ocfs2: fix defrag path triggering jbd2 ASSERT
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 08:37:17 +0800

code path:

ocfs2_ioctl_move_extents
 ocfs2_move_extents
  ocfs2_defrag_extent
   __ocfs2_move_extent
    + ocfs2_journal_access_di
    + ocfs2_split_extent  //sub-paths call jbd2_journal_restart
    + ocfs2_journal_dirty //crash by jbs2 ASSERT

crash stacks:

PID: 11297  TASK: ffff974a676dcd00  CPU: 67  COMMAND: "defragfs.ocfs2"
 #0 [ffffb25d8dad3900] machine_kexec at ffffffff8386fe01
 #1 [ffffb25d8dad3958] __crash_kexec at ffffffff8395959d
 #2 [ffffb25d8dad3a20] crash_kexec at ffffffff8395a45d
 #3 [ffffb25d8dad3a38] oops_end at ffffffff83836d3f
 #4 [ffffb25d8dad3a58] do_trap at ffffffff83833205
 #5 [ffffb25d8dad3aa0] do_invalid_op at ffffffff83833aa6
 #6 [ffffb25d8dad3ac0] invalid_op at ffffffff84200d18
    [exception RIP: jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata+0x2ba]
    RIP: ffffffffc09ca54a  RSP: ffffb25d8dad3b70  RFLAGS: 00010207
    RAX: 0000000000000000  RBX: ffff9706eedc5248  RCX: 0000000000000000
    RDX: 0000000000000001  RSI: ffff97337029ea28  RDI: ffff9706eedc5250
    RBP: ffff9703c3520200   R8: 000000000f46b0b2   R9: 0000000000000000
    R10: 0000000000000001  R11: 00000001000000fe  R12: ffff97337029ea28
    R13: 0000000000000000  R14: ffff9703de59bf60  R15: ffff9706eedc5250
    ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff  CS: 0010  SS: 0018
 #7 [ffffb25d8dad3ba8] ocfs2_journal_dirty at ffffffffc137fb95 [ocfs2]
 #8 [ffffb25d8dad3be8] __ocfs2_move_extent at ffffffffc139a950 [ocfs2]
 #9 [ffffb25d8dad3c80] ocfs2_defrag_extent at ffffffffc139b2d2 [ocfs2]

Analysis

This bug has the same root cause of 'commit 7f27ec978b0e ("ocfs2: call
ocfs2_journal_access_di() before ocfs2_journal_dirty() in
ocfs2_write_end_nolock()")'.  For this bug, jbd2_journal_restart() is
called by ocfs2_split_extent() during defragmenting.

How to fix

For ocfs2_split_extent() can handle journal operations totally by itself. 
Caller doesn't need to call journal access/dirty pair, and caller only
needs to call journal start/stop pair.  The fix method is to remove
journal access/dirty from __ocfs2_move_extent().

The discussion for this patch:
https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs2-devel/2023-February/000647.html

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230217003717.32469-1-heming.zhao at suse.com
Signed-off-by: Heming Zhao <heming.zhao at suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi at linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark at fasheh.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec at evilplan.org>
Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi at oracle.com>
Cc: Changwei Ge <gechangwei at live.cn>
Cc: Gang He <ghe at suse.com>
Cc: Jun Piao <piaojun at huawei.com>
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
---

 fs/ocfs2/move_extents.c |   10 ----------
 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/ocfs2/move_extents.c~ocfs2-fix-defrag-path-triggering-jbd2-assert
+++ a/fs/ocfs2/move_extents.c
@@ -105,14 +105,6 @@ static int __ocfs2_move_extent(handle_t
 	 */
 	replace_rec.e_flags = ext_flags & ~OCFS2_EXT_REFCOUNTED;
 
-	ret = ocfs2_journal_access_di(handle, INODE_CACHE(inode),
-				      context->et.et_root_bh,
-				      OCFS2_JOURNAL_ACCESS_WRITE);
-	if (ret) {
-		mlog_errno(ret);
-		goto out;
-	}
-
 	ret = ocfs2_split_extent(handle, &context->et, path, index,
 				 &replace_rec, context->meta_ac,
 				 &context->dealloc);
@@ -121,8 +113,6 @@ static int __ocfs2_move_extent(handle_t
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	ocfs2_journal_dirty(handle, context->et.et_root_bh);
-
 	context->new_phys_cpos = new_p_cpos;
 
 	/*
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from ocfs2-devel at oss.oracle.com are

ocfs2-fix-defrag-path-triggering-jbd2-assert.patch
ocfs2-fix-non-auto-defrag-path-not-working-issue.patch