Tejun Heo edca54b897 writeback: synchronize sync(2) against cgroup writeback membership switches
[ Upstream commit 7fc5854f8c ]

sync_inodes_sb() can race against cgwb (cgroup writeback) membership
switches and fail to writeback some inodes.  For example, if an inode
switches to another wb while sync_inodes_sb() is in progress, the new
wb might not be visible to bdi_split_work_to_wbs() at all or the inode
might jump from a wb which hasn't issued writebacks yet to one which
already has.

This patch adds backing_dev_info->wb_switch_rwsem to synchronize cgwb
switch path against sync_inodes_sb() so that sync_inodes_sb() is
guaranteed to see all the target wbs and inodes can't jump wbs to
escape syncing.

v2: Fixed misplaced rwsem init.  Spotted by Jiufei.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Jiufei Xue <xuejiufei@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/dc694ae2-f07f-61e1-7097-7c8411cee12d@gmail.com
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2019-03-05 17:58:50 +01:00
2019-02-20 10:25:36 +01:00
2019-02-27 10:09:03 +01:00

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