On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 2:38 PM, David Sterba <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 07:24:16PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
>> From: Filipe Manana <[email protected]>
>>
>> If we failed during a rename exchange operation after starting/joining a
>> transaction, we would end up replacing the return value, stored in the
>> local 'ret' variable, with the return value from btrfs_end_transaction().
>> So this could end up returning 0 (success) to user space despite the
>> operation having failed and aborted the transaction, because if there are
>> multiple tasks having a reference on the transaction at the time
>> btrfs_end_transaction() is called by the rename exchange, that function
>> returns 0 (otherwise it returns -EIO and not the original error value).
>> So fix this by not overwriting the return value on error after getting
>> a transaction handle.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <[email protected]>
>
> 1 and 2 queued for 4.18, thanks.

Please removed the 2nd patch, because I just ran into a deadlock
between syncing the log and transaction kthread commiting the
transaction while a rename was in progress.
I'll send a v2 once I understand better the problem and have a fix. Thanks.
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