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Commit c018daec authored by Miao Xie's avatar Miao Xie Committed by Josef Bacik
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Btrfs: protect fs_info->alloc_start



fs_info->alloc_start is a 64bits variant, can be accessed by
multi-task, but it is not protected strictly, it can be changed
while we are accessing it. On 32bit machine, we will get wrong
value because we access it by two instructions.(In fact, it is
also possible that the same problem happens on the 64bit machine,
because the compiler may split the 64bit operation into two 32bit
operation.)

For example:
Assuming -> alloc_start is 0x0000 0000 0001 0000 at the beginning,
then we remount and set ->alloc_start to 0x0000 0100 0000 0000.
	Task0 			Task1
				load high 32 bits
	set high 32 bits
	set low 32 bits
				load low 32 bits

Task1 will get 0.

This patch fixes this problem by using two locks to protect it
	fs_info->chunk_mutex
	sb->s_umount
On the read side, we just need get one of these two locks, and on
the write side, we must lock all of them.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMiao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJosef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
parent 8c6a3ee6
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