Hi, Before this patch, an IO error encountered in function gfs2_ail1_flush would cause a deadlock: because of the io error (and its resulting withdrawn state), buffers stopped being written to the journal. Buffers would remain on the ail1 list, so gfs2_ail1_start_one would return 1 to indicate dirty buffers were still on the ail1 list. However, when function gfs2_ail1_flush got a non-zero return code, it would goto restart to retry the writes, which meant it would never finish, and thus the infinite loop.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <[email protected]> --- fs/gfs2/log.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/gfs2/log.c b/fs/gfs2/log.c index 4a7713c62f04..6ad59fc17565 100644 --- a/fs/gfs2/log.c +++ b/fs/gfs2/log.c @@ -161,7 +161,8 @@ void gfs2_ail1_flush(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, struct writeback_control *wbc) list_for_each_entry_reverse(tr, head, tr_list) { if (wbc->nr_to_write <= 0) break; - if (gfs2_ail1_start_one(sdp, wbc, tr, &withdraw)) + if (gfs2_ail1_start_one(sdp, wbc, tr, &withdraw) && + !gfs2_withdrawn(sdp)) goto restart; } spin_unlock(&sdp->sd_ail_lock);
