[PATCH 07/10] UBIFS: fix clean znode counter corruption in error cases

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 3 09:49:58 EDT 2011


From: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy at nokia.com>

UBIFS maintains per-filesystem and global clean znode counters
('c->clean_zn_cnt' and 'ubifs_clean_zn_cnt'). It is important to maintain
correct values there since the shrinker relies on 'ubifs_clean_zn_cnt'.

However, in case of failures during commit the counters were corrupted. E.g.,
if a failure happens in the middle of 'write_index()', then some nodes in the
commit list ('c->cnext') are marked as clean, and some are marked as dirty. And
the 'ubifs_destroy_tnc_subtree()' frees does not retrun correct count, and we
end up with non-zero 'c->clean_zn_cnt' when unmounting. This means that if we
have 2 file-sytem and one of them fails, and we unmount it,
'ubifs_clean_zn_cnt' stays incorrect and confuses the shrinker.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy at nokia.com>
---
 fs/ubifs/tnc.c |    9 +++++----
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ubifs/tnc.c b/fs/ubifs/tnc.c
index 8119b1f..91b4213 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/tnc.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/tnc.c
@@ -2876,12 +2876,13 @@ static void tnc_destroy_cnext(struct ubifs_info *c)
  */
 void ubifs_tnc_close(struct ubifs_info *c)
 {
-	long clean_freed;
-
 	tnc_destroy_cnext(c);
 	if (c->zroot.znode) {
-		clean_freed = ubifs_destroy_tnc_subtree(c->zroot.znode);
-		atomic_long_sub(clean_freed, &ubifs_clean_zn_cnt);
+		long n;
+
+		ubifs_destroy_tnc_subtree(c->zroot.znode);
+		n = atomic_long_read(&c->clean_zn_cnt);
+		atomic_long_sub(n, &ubifs_clean_zn_cnt);
 	}
 	kfree(c->gap_lebs);
 	kfree(c->ilebs);
-- 
1.7.2.3




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