xfs: unlock items before allowing the CIL to commit

When we commit a transaction using delayed logging, we need to
unlock the items in the transaciton before we unlock the CIL context
and allow it to be checkpointed. If we unlock them after we release
the CIl context lock, the CIL can checkpoint and complete before
we free the log items. This breaks stale buffer item unlock and
unpin processing as there is an implicit assumption that the unlock
will occur before the unpin.

Also, some log items need to store the LSN of the transaction commit
in the item (inodes and EFIs) and so can race with other transaction
completions if we don't prevent the CIL from checkpointing before
the unlock occurs.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_log_cil.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_log_cil.c
index 31e4ea2d19a..ef8e7d9f445 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_log_cil.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_log_cil.c
@@ -377,9 +377,23 @@ xfs_log_commit_cil(
 	xfs_log_done(mp, tp->t_ticket, NULL, log_flags);
 	xfs_trans_unreserve_and_mod_sb(tp);
 
+	/*
+	 * Once all the items of the transaction have been copied to the CIL,
+	 * the items can be unlocked and freed.
+	 *
+	 * This needs to be done before we drop the CIL context lock because we
+	 * have to update state in the log items and unlock them before they go
+	 * to disk. If we don't, then the CIL checkpoint can race with us and
+	 * we can run checkpoint completion before we've updated and unlocked
+	 * the log items. This affects (at least) processing of stale buffers,
+	 * inodes and EFIs.
+	 */
+	xfs_trans_free_items(tp, *commit_lsn, 0);
+
 	/* check for background commit before unlock */
 	if (log->l_cilp->xc_ctx->space_used > XLOG_CIL_SPACE_LIMIT(log))
 		push = 1;
+
 	up_read(&log->l_cilp->xc_ctx_lock);
 
 	/*