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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2013-05-13 09:45:01 -0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2013-05-13 09:45:01 -0400
commite2555fde4159467fb579e6ae3c0a8fc33015d0f5 (patch)
treeaacf8fc79d3180a2bd2bf265f1fb362e7b2b4c50
parenta549984b8c95acbecefd1fdd4bfdbea4d29b0588 (diff)
downloadlinux-e2555fde4159467fb579e6ae3c0a8fc33015d0f5.tar.bz2
jbd,jbd2: fix oops in jbd2_journal_put_journal_head()
Commit ae4647fb (jbd2: reduce journal_head size) introduced a regression where we occasionally hit panic in jbd2_journal_put_journal_head() because of wrong b_jcount. The bug is caused by gcc making 64-bit access to 32-bit bitfield and thus clobbering b_jcount. At least for now, those 8 bytes saved in struct journal_head are not worth the trouble with gcc bitfield handling so revert that part of the patch. Reported-by: EUNBONG SONG <eunb.song@samsung.com> Reported-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/journal-head.h8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/journal-head.h b/include/linux/journal-head.h
index 13a3da25ff07..98cd41bb39c8 100644
--- a/include/linux/journal-head.h
+++ b/include/linux/journal-head.h
@@ -30,15 +30,19 @@ struct journal_head {
/*
* Journalling list for this buffer [jbd_lock_bh_state()]
+ * NOTE: We *cannot* combine this with b_modified into a bitfield
+ * as gcc would then (which the C standard allows but which is
+ * very unuseful) make 64-bit accesses to the bitfield and clobber
+ * b_jcount if its update races with bitfield modification.
*/
- unsigned b_jlist:4;
+ unsigned b_jlist;
/*
* This flag signals the buffer has been modified by
* the currently running transaction
* [jbd_lock_bh_state()]
*/
- unsigned b_modified:1;
+ unsigned b_modified;
/*
* Copy of the buffer data frozen for writing to the log.