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Commit deeeaf13 authored by Theodore Ts'o's avatar Theodore Ts'o
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jbd2: fix fsync() tid wraparound bug



If an application program does not make any changes to the indirect
blocks or extent tree, i_datasync_tid will not get updated.  If there
are enough commits (i.e., 2**31) such that tid_geq()'s calculations
wrap, and there isn't a currently active transaction at the time of
the fdatasync() call, this can end up triggering a BUG_ON in
fs/jbd2/commit.c:

	J_ASSERT(journal->j_running_transaction != NULL);

It's pretty rare that this can happen, since it requires the use of
fdatasync() plus *very* frequent and excessive use of fsync().  But
with the right workload, it can.

We fix this by replacing the use of tid_geq() with an equality test,
since there's only one valid transaction id that we is valid for us to
wait until it is commited: namely, the currently running transaction
(if it exists).

Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
parent 59802db0
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