[Patch] Catch filesystems lacking s_bdi

[Jörn Engel]

On Thu, 22 April 2010 18:27:10 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> > Jens - please help fix this up.
> 
> Of course, I already posted a series of patches to fix this up. I want
> to test them a bit, and I'll send them in tomorrow.

How about something like this to catch future cases?  It compiles and
survived a test boot, so it does seem to work for the common cases like
tmpfs, procfs, etc.

Jens, you know the bdi code 10x better than me, would this work?

Jörn

-- 
ticks = jiffies;
while (ticks == jiffies);
ticks = jiffies;
-- /usr/src/linux/init/main.c

noop_backing_dev_info is used only as a flag to mark filesystems that
don't have any backing store, like tmpfs, procfs, spufs, etc.

Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern at logfs.org>

diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index f35ac60..dc72491 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -693,6 +693,7 @@ int set_anon_super(struct super_block *s, void *data)
 		return -EMFILE;
 	}
 	s->s_dev = MKDEV(0, dev & MINORMASK);
+	s->s_bdi = &noop_backing_dev_info;
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -954,10 +955,11 @@ vfs_kern_mount(struct file_system_type *type, int flags, const char *name, void
 	if (error < 0)
 		goto out_free_secdata;
 	BUG_ON(!mnt->mnt_sb);
+	BUG_ON(!mnt->mnt_sb->s_bdi);
 
- 	error = security_sb_kern_mount(mnt->mnt_sb, flags, secdata);
- 	if (error)
- 		goto out_sb;
+	error = security_sb_kern_mount(mnt->mnt_sb, flags, secdata);
+	if (error)
+		goto out_sb;
 
 	/*
 	 * filesystems should never set s_maxbytes larger than MAX_LFS_FILESIZE
diff --git a/fs/sync.c b/fs/sync.c
index fc5c3d7..92b2281 100644
--- a/fs/sync.c
+++ b/fs/sync.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #include <linux/pagemap.h>
 #include <linux/quotaops.h>
 #include <linux/buffer_head.h>
+#include <linux/backing-dev.h>
 #include "internal.h"
 
 #define VALID_FLAGS (SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE|SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE| \
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@ static int __sync_filesystem(struct super_block *sb, int wait)
 	 * This should be safe, as we require bdi backing to actually
 	 * write out data in the first place
 	 */
-	if (!sb->s_bdi)
+	if (!sb->s_bdi || sb->s_bdi == &noop_backing_dev_info)
 		return 0;
 
 	if (sb->s_qcop && sb->s_qcop->quota_sync)
diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev.h b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
index fcbc26a..f4a1436 100644
--- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h
+++ b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
@@ -246,6 +246,7 @@ int bdi_set_max_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned int max_ratio);
 #endif
 
 extern struct backing_dev_info default_backing_dev_info;
+extern struct backing_dev_info noop_backing_dev_info;
 void default_unplug_io_fn(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, struct page *page);
 
 int writeback_in_progress(struct backing_dev_info *bdi);
diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
index f13e067..4aba836 100644
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -25,6 +25,11 @@ struct backing_dev_info default_backing_dev_info = {
 };
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(default_backing_dev_info);
 
+struct backing_dev_info noop_backing_dev_info = {
+	.name		= "noop",
+};
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(noop_backing_dev_info);
+
 static struct class *bdi_class;
 
 /*