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    ext4: call ext4_ioend_wait and ext4_flush_completed_IO in ext4_evict_inode · 2581fdc8
    Jiaying Zhang authored
    
    
    Flush inode's i_completed_io_list before calling ext4_io_wait to
    prevent the following deadlock scenario: A page fault happens while
    some process is writing inode A. During page fault,
    shrink_icache_memory is called that in turn evicts another inode
    B. Inode B has some pending io_end work so it calls ext4_ioend_wait()
    that waits for inode B's i_ioend_count to become zero. However, inode
    B's ioend work was queued behind some of inode A's ioend work on the
    same cpu's ext4-dio-unwritten workqueue. As the ext4-dio-unwritten
    thread on that cpu is processing inode A's ioend work, it tries to
    grab inode A's i_mutex lock. Since the i_mutex lock of inode A is
    still hold before the page fault happened, we enter a deadlock.
    
    Also moves ext4_flush_completed_IO and ext4_ioend_wait from
    ext4_destroy_inode() to ext4_evict_inode(). During inode deleteion,
    ext4_evict_inode() is called before ext4_destroy_inode() and in
    ext4_evict_inode(), we may call ext4_truncate() without holding
    i_mutex lock. As a result, there is a race between flush_completed_IO
    that is called from ext4_ext_truncate() and ext4_end_io_work, which
    may cause corruption on an io_end structure. This change moves
    ext4_flush_completed_IO and ext4_ioend_wait from ext4_destroy_inode()
    to ext4_evict_inode() to resolve the race between ext4_truncate() and
    ext4_end_io_work during inode deletion.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
    Cc: stable@kernel.org
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