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    xfs_file_last_byte() needs to acquire ilock · def6b3ba
    Lachlan McIlroy authored
    
    
    We had some systems crash with this stack:
    
    [<a00000010000cb20>] ia64_leave_kernel+0x0/0x280
    [<a00000021291ca00>] xfs_bmbt_get_startoff+0x0/0x20 [xfs]
    [<a0000002129080b0>] xfs_bmap_last_offset+0x210/0x280 [xfs]
    [<a00000021295b010>] xfs_file_last_byte+0x70/0x1a0 [xfs]
    [<a00000021295b200>] xfs_itruncate_start+0xc0/0x1a0 [xfs]
    [<a0000002129935f0>] xfs_inactive_free_eofblocks+0x290/0x460 [xfs]
    [<a000000212998fb0>] xfs_release+0x1b0/0x240 [xfs]
    [<a0000002129ad930>] xfs_file_release+0x70/0xa0 [xfs]
    [<a000000100162ea0>] __fput+0x1a0/0x420
    [<a000000100163160>] fput+0x40/0x60
    
    The problem here is that xfs_file_last_byte() does not acquire the
    inode lock and can therefore race with another thread that is modifying
    the extext list.  While xfs_bmap_last_offset() is trying to lookup
    what was the last extent some extents were merged and the extent list
    shrunk so the index we lookup is now beyond the end of the extent list
    and potentially in a freed buffer.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLachlan McIlroy <lmcilroy@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarFelix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFelix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
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