On Wed, 18 Mar 2015, Taesoo Kim wrote:

> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 13:39:31 -0400
> From: Taesoo Kim <tae...@gatech.edu>
> To: Lukáš Czerner <lczer...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Taesoo Kim <tsgat...@gmail.com>, ty...@mit.edu,
>     linux-e...@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
>     chang...@gatech.edu, sanid...@gatech.edu, b...@gatech.edu,
>     cson...@gatech.edu
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] jbd2: fix incorrect unlock on j_list_lock
> 
> > The patch looks good, thanks.
> 
> Thank you.
>  
> > Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner <lczer...@redhat.com>
> > 
> > Btw, were you able to reproduce the problem, or have you seen the
> > problem in the wild ? Or did you just spot it in the code ?
> 
> We are developing a static checker to spot inconsistent programming
> patterns; our first goal is to scan over existing filesystems and
> figure out how they are implemented differently (or similarly). We
> will report bugs in sequence as soon as our team confirm (just start
> sending patches to other fs).

And this was found but it ?

But anyway it sounds really interesting, do you have any more
information you can share about the project ? Project website,
description, or source code would be great :)

Thanks!
-Lukas

> 
> Thanks,
> Taesoo
> 
> > Thanks!
> > -Lukas
> > 
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Taesoo Kim <tsgat...@gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > >  fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 3 ++-
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
> > > index 5f09370..edb7f59 100644
> > > --- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
> > > +++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
> > > @@ -1091,6 +1091,7 @@ int jbd2_journal_get_create_access(handle_t 
> > > *handle, struct buffer_head *bh)
> > >           JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "file as BJ_Reserved");
> > >           spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock);
> > >           __jbd2_journal_file_buffer(jh, transaction, BJ_Reserved);
> > > +         spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock);
> > >   } else if (jh->b_transaction == journal->j_committing_transaction) {
> > >           /* first access by this transaction */
> > >           jh->b_modified = 0;
> > > @@ -1098,8 +1099,8 @@ int jbd2_journal_get_create_access(handle_t 
> > > *handle, struct buffer_head *bh)
> > >           JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "set next transaction");
> > >           spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock);
> > >           jh->b_next_transaction = transaction;
> > > +         spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock);
> > >   }
> > > - spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock);
> > >   jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh);
> > > 
> > >   /*
> > > --
> > > 2.3.3
> > > 
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