On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 06:31:44PM +0300, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
> A recent patch to btrfs showed that there was at least 1 case where a
> nesed transaction was committed. Nested transaction in this case  means
> a code which has a transaction handle calls some function which in turn
> obtains a copy of the same transaction handle. In such cases the correct
> thing to do is for the lower callee to call btrfs_end_transaction which
> contains appropriate checks so as to not commit the transaction which
> will result in stale trans handler for the caller.
> 
> To catch such cases add an assert in btrfs_commit_transaction ensuring
> btrfs_trans_handle::use_count is always 1.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nbori...@suse.com>

Added to misc-next, thanks.

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