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Filipe Manana
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Currently, the last_log_commit of a root can be accessed concurrently without any lock protection. Readers can be calling btrfs_inode_in_log() early in a fsync call, which reads a root's last_log_commit, while a writer can change the last_log_commit while a log tree if being synced, at btrfs_sync_log(). Any races here should be harmless, and in the worst case they may cause a fsync to log an inode when it's not really needed, so nothing bad from a functional perspective. To avoid data race warnings from tools like KCSAN and other issues such as load and store tearing (amongst others, see [1]), create helpers to access the last_log_commit field of a root using READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE(), and use these helpers everywhere. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/793253/ Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
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requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.