xfs: fix error handling for synchronous writes
If we get an IO error on a synchronous superblock write, we attach an error release function to it so that when the last reference goes away the release function is called and the buffer is invalidated and unlocked. The buffer is left locked until the release function is called so that other concurrent users of the buffer will be locked out until the buffer error is fully processed. Unfortunately, for the superblock buffer the filesyetm itself holds a reference to the buffer which prevents the reference count from dropping to zero and the release function being called. As a result, once an IO error occurs on a sync write, the buffer will never be unlocked and all future attempts to lock the buffer will hang. To make matters worse, this problems is not unique to such buffers; if there is a concurrent _xfs_buf_find() running, the lookup will grab a reference to the buffer and then wait on the buffer lock, preventing the reference count from ever falling to zero and hence unlocking the buffer. As such, the whole b_relse function implementation is broken because it cannot rely on the buffer reference count falling to zero to unlock the errored buffer. The synchronous write error path is the only path that uses this callback - it is used to ensure that the synchronous waiter gets the buffer error before the error state is cleared from the buffer by the release function. Given that the only sychronous buffer writes now go through xfs_bwrite and the error path in question can only occur for a write of a dirty, logged buffer, we can move most of the b_relse processing to happen inline in xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks, just like a normal I/O completion. In addition to that we make sure the error is not cleared in xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks, so that xfs_bwrite can reliably check it. Given that xfs_bwrite keeps the buffer locked until it has waited for it and checked the error this allows to reliably propagate the error to the caller, and make sure that the buffer is reliably unlocked. Given that xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks was the only instance of the b_relse callback we can remove it entirely. Based on earlier patches by Dave Chinner and Ajeet Yadav. Signed-off-by:Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reported-by:
Ajeet Yadav <ajeet.yadav.77@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
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