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    xfs: xfs_iflush_done checks the wrong log item callback · 52177937
    Mark Tinguely authored
    Commit 30136832
    
     ("xfs: remove all the inodes on a buffer from the AIL
    in bulk") made the xfs inode flush callback more efficient by
    combining all the inode writes on the buffer and the deletions of
    the inode log item from AIL.
    
    The initial loop in this patch should be looping through all
    the log items on the buffer to see which items have
    xfs_iflush_done as their callback function. But currently,
    only the log item passed to the function has its callback
    compared to xfs_iflush_done. If the log item pointer passed to
    the function does have the xfs_iflush_done callback function,
    then all the log items on the buffer are removed from the
    li_bio_list on the buffer b_fspriv and could be removed from
    the AIL even though they may have not been written yet.
    
    This problem is masked by the fact that currently all inodes on a
    buffer will have the same calback function - either xfs_iflush_done
    or xfs_istale_done - and hence the bug cannot manifest in any way.
    Still, we need to remove the landmine so that if we add new
    callbacks in future this doesn't cause us problems.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
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