On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 01:36:31PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> From: Kazuya Mio <[email protected]>
> 
> dd slept infinitely when fsfeeze failed because of EIO.
> To fix this problem, if ->freeze_fs fails, freeze_super() wakes up
> the tasks waiting for the filesystem to become unfrozen.
> 
> When s_frozen isn't SB_UNFROZEN in __generic_file_aio_write(),
> the function sleeps until FITHAW ioctl wakes up s_wait_unfrozen.
> 
> However, if ->freeze_fs fails, s_frozen is set to SB_UNFROZEN and then
> freeze_super() returns an error number. In this case, FITHAW ioctl returns
> EINVAL because s_frozen is already SB_UNFROZEN. There is no way to wake up
> s_wait_unfrozen, so __generic_file_aio_write() sleeps infinitely.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kazuya Mio <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
> ---
> Please consider for 3.2, seems to have been missed out there.
> Shipps with >= 3.3 linux. Can be triggered with dd testcase.


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