Jaegeuk Kim b0f3b87fb3 f2fs: should avoid inode eviction in synchronous path
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208565

PID: 257    TASK: ecdd0000  CPU: 0   COMMAND: "init"
  #0 [<c0b420ec>] (__schedule) from [<c0b423c8>]
  #1 [<c0b423c8>] (schedule) from [<c0b459d4>]
  #2 [<c0b459d4>] (rwsem_down_read_failed) from [<c0b44fa0>]
  #3 [<c0b44fa0>] (down_read) from [<c044233c>]
  #4 [<c044233c>] (f2fs_truncate_blocks) from [<c0442890>]
  #5 [<c0442890>] (f2fs_truncate) from [<c044d408>]
  #6 [<c044d408>] (f2fs_evict_inode) from [<c030be18>]
  #7 [<c030be18>] (evict) from [<c030a558>]
  #8 [<c030a558>] (iput) from [<c047c600>]
  #9 [<c047c600>] (f2fs_sync_node_pages) from [<c0465414>]
 #10 [<c0465414>] (f2fs_write_checkpoint) from [<c04575f4>]
 #11 [<c04575f4>] (f2fs_sync_fs) from [<c0441918>]
 #12 [<c0441918>] (f2fs_do_sync_file) from [<c0441098>]
 #13 [<c0441098>] (f2fs_sync_file) from [<c0323fa0>]
 #14 [<c0323fa0>] (vfs_fsync_range) from [<c0324294>]
 #15 [<c0324294>] (do_fsync) from [<c0324014>]
 #16 [<c0324014>] (sys_fsync) from [<c0108bc0>]

This can be caused by flush_dirty_inode() in f2fs_sync_node_pages() where
iput() requires f2fs_lock_op() again resulting in livelock.

Reported-by: Zhiguo Niu <Zhiguo.Niu@unisoc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
2020-07-21 12:55:54 -07:00

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