gfs2: fix GL_SKIP node_scope problems

Before this patch, when a glock was locked, the very first holder on the
queue would unlock the lockref and call the go_instantiate glops function
(if one existed), unless GL_SKIP was specified. When we introduced the new
node-scope concept, we allowed multiple holders to lock glocks in EX mode
and share the lock.

But node-scope introduced a new problem: if the first holder has GL_SKIP
and the next one does NOT, since it is not the first holder on the queue,
the go_instantiate op was not called. Eventually the GL_SKIP holder may
call the instantiate sub-function (e.g. gfs2_rgrp_bh_get) but there was
still a window of time in which another non-GL_SKIP holder assumes the
instantiate function had been called by the first holder. In the case of
rgrp glocks, this led to a NULL pointer dereference on the buffer_heads.

This patch tries to fix the problem by introducing two new glock flags:

GLF_INSTANTIATE_NEEDED, which keeps track of when the instantiate function
needs to be called to "fill in" or "read in" the object before it is
referenced.

GLF_INSTANTIATE_IN_PROG which is used to determine when a process is
in the process of reading in the object. Whenever a function needs to
reference the object, it checks the GLF_INSTANTIATE_NEEDED flag, and if
set, it sets GLF_INSTANTIATE_IN_PROG and calls the glops "go_instantiate"
function.

As before, the gl_lockref spin_lock is unlocked during the IO operation,
which may take a relatively long amount of time to complete. While
unlocked, if another process determines go_instantiate is still needed,
it sees GLF_INSTANTIATE_IN_PROG is set, and waits for the go_instantiate
glop operation to be completed. Once GLF_INSTANTIATE_IN_PROG is cleared,
it needs to check GLF_INSTANTIATE_NEEDED again because the other process's
go_instantiate operation may not have been successful.

Functions that previously called the instantiate sub-functions now call
directly into gfs2_instantiate so the new bits are managed properly.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/glock.h b/fs/gfs2/glock.h
index a36104229d0d..4f8642301801 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/glock.h
+++ b/fs/gfs2/glock.h
@@ -204,6 +204,7 @@ extern void gfs2_holder_reinit(unsigned int state, u16 flags,
 extern void gfs2_holder_uninit(struct gfs2_holder *gh);
 extern int gfs2_glock_nq(struct gfs2_holder *gh);
 extern int gfs2_glock_poll(struct gfs2_holder *gh);
+extern int gfs2_instantiate(struct gfs2_holder *gh);
 extern int gfs2_glock_wait(struct gfs2_holder *gh);
 extern int gfs2_glock_async_wait(unsigned int num_gh, struct gfs2_holder *ghs);
 extern void gfs2_glock_dq(struct gfs2_holder *gh);