Freezing and thawing are separate system calls, task which is supposed
to thaw filesystem/superblock can disappear due to crash or not thaw
due to a bug. Record at least task name (we can't take task_struct
reference) to make support engineer's life easier.

Hopefully 16 bytes per superblock isn't much.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobri...@gmail.com>
---

 fs/block_dev.c     |   12 ++++++++----
 fs/ioctl.c         |   22 ++++++++++++++++------
 fs/super.c         |    2 ++
 include/linux/fs.h |    2 ++
 4 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -227,9 +227,11 @@ struct super_block *freeze_bdev(struct block_device *bdev)
        sb = get_active_super(bdev);
        if (!sb)
                goto out;
-       if (sb->s_op->freeze_super)
+       if (sb->s_op->freeze_super) {
                error = sb->s_op->freeze_super(sb);
-       else
+               if (error == 0)
+                       get_task_comm(sb->s_writers.freeze_comm, current);
+       } else
                error = freeze_super(sb);
        if (error) {
                deactivate_super(sb);
@@ -267,9 +269,11 @@ int thaw_bdev(struct block_device *bdev, struct 
super_block *sb)
        if (!sb)
                goto out;
 
-       if (sb->s_op->thaw_super)
+       if (sb->s_op->thaw_super) {
                error = sb->s_op->thaw_super(sb);
-       else
+               if (error == 0)
+                       memset(sb->s_writers.freeze_comm, 0, TASK_COMM_LEN);
+       } else
                error = thaw_super(sb);
        if (error) {
                bdev->bd_fsfreeze_count++;
--- a/fs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/ioctl.c
@@ -518,6 +518,7 @@ static int ioctl_fioasync(unsigned int fd, struct file 
*filp,
 static int ioctl_fsfreeze(struct file *filp)
 {
        struct super_block *sb = file_inode(filp)->i_sb;
+       int rv;
 
        if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
                return -EPERM;
@@ -527,22 +528,31 @@ static int ioctl_fsfreeze(struct file *filp)
                return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
        /* Freeze */
-       if (sb->s_op->freeze_super)
-               return sb->s_op->freeze_super(sb);
-       return freeze_super(sb);
+       if (sb->s_op->freeze_super) {
+               rv = sb->s_op->freeze_super(sb);
+               if (rv == 0)
+                       get_task_comm(sb->s_writers.freeze_comm, current);
+       } else
+               rv = freeze_super(sb);
+       return rv;
 }
 
 static int ioctl_fsthaw(struct file *filp)
 {
        struct super_block *sb = file_inode(filp)->i_sb;
+       int rv;
 
        if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
                return -EPERM;
 
        /* Thaw */
-       if (sb->s_op->thaw_super)
-               return sb->s_op->thaw_super(sb);
-       return thaw_super(sb);
+       if (sb->s_op->thaw_super) {
+               rv = sb->s_op->thaw_super(sb);
+               if (rv == 0)
+                       memset(sb->s_writers.freeze_comm, 0, TASK_COMM_LEN);
+       } else
+               rv = thaw_super(sb);
+       return rv;
 }
 
 /*
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -1355,6 +1355,7 @@ int freeze_super(struct super_block *sb)
         * sees write activity when frozen is set to SB_FREEZE_COMPLETE.
         */
        sb->s_writers.frozen = SB_FREEZE_COMPLETE;
+       get_task_comm(sb->s_writers.freeze_comm, current);
        up_write(&sb->s_umount);
        return 0;
 }
@@ -1391,6 +1392,7 @@ int thaw_super(struct super_block *sb)
 
 out:
        sb->s_writers.frozen = SB_UNFROZEN;
+       memset(sb->s_writers.freeze_comm, 0, TASK_COMM_LEN);
        smp_wmb();
        wake_up(&sb->s_writers.wait_unfrozen);
        deactivate_locked_super(sb);
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1221,6 +1221,8 @@ struct sb_writers {
        int                     frozen;         /* Is sb frozen? */
        wait_queue_head_t       wait_unfrozen;  /* queue for waiting for
                                                   sb to be thawed */
+       /* who froze superblock and forgot to thaw it */
+       char                    freeze_comm[16];
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
        struct lockdep_map      lock_map[SB_FREEZE_LEVELS];
 #endif
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