Please, ignore this. Patch 2 has wrong description.

On 06.03.2020 15:32, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
> Here we have even worse race than in mainstream.
> 
> https://jira.sw.ru/browse/PSBM-101798
> 
> Fixes: 86521524314e "ext4: replace ext4_kvmalloc() with kvmalloc()"
> Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktk...@virtuozzo.com>
> ---
>  fs/ext4/super.c |   10 ++++++----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
> index 7b77cabae690..3adeeb00f118 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
> @@ -2196,7 +2196,7 @@ int ext4_alloc_group_desc_bh_array(struct super_block 
> *sb, ext4_group_t ngroup)
>  {
>       struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(sb);
>       unsigned long num_desc = DIV_ROUND_UP(ngroup,  EXT4_DESC_PER_BLOCK(sb));
> -     struct buffer_head **n_group_desc;
> +     struct buffer_head **o_group_desc, **n_group_desc;
>  
>       if (num_desc <= sbi->s_gdb_count)
>               return 0;
> @@ -2208,11 +2208,13 @@ int ext4_alloc_group_desc_bh_array(struct super_block 
> *sb, ext4_group_t ngroup)
>               return -ENOMEM;
>       }
>  
> -     memcpy(n_group_desc, sbi->s_group_desc,
> +     o_group_desc = sbi->s_group_desc;
> +     memcpy(n_group_desc, o_group_desc,
>              sbi->s_gdb_count * sizeof(struct buffer_head *));
> -     kvfree(sbi->s_group_desc);
> +     WRITE_ONCE(sbi->s_group_desc, n_group_desc);
>  
> -     sbi->s_group_desc = n_group_desc;
> +     /* FIXME: rcu is needed here. See ms commit 1d0c3924a92e */
> +     kvfree(o_group_desc);
>       return 0;
>  }
>  
> 
> 

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