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    jbd2: fix race when writing superblock · 538bcaa6
    Theodore Ts'o authored
    The jbd2 superblock is lockless now, so there is probably a race
    condition between writing it so disk and modifing contents of it, which
    may lead to checksum error. The following race is the one case that we
    have captured.
    
    jbd2                                fsstress
    jbd2_journal_commit_transaction
     jbd2_journal_update_sb_log_tail
      jbd2_write_superblock
       jbd2_superblock_csum_set         jbd2_journal_revoke
                                         jbd2_journal_set_features(revork)
                                         modify superblock
       submit_bh(checksum incorrect)
    
    Fix this by locking the buffer head before modifing it.  We always
    write the jbd2 superblock after we modify it, so this just means
    calling the lock_buffer() a little earlier.
    
    This checksum corruption problem can be reproduced by xfstests
    generic/475.
    Reported-by: default avatarzhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
    Suggested-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
    538bcaa6
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