Btrfs: fix inode cache waiters hanging on failure to start caching thread

If we fail to start the inode caching thread, we print an error message
and disable the inode cache, however we never wake up any waiters, so they
hang forever waiting for the caching to finish. Fix this by waking them
up and have them fallback to a call to btrfs_find_free_objectid().

Fixes: e60efa84252c05 ("Btrfs: avoid triggering bug_on() when we fail to start inode caching task")
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode-map.c b/fs/btrfs/inode-map.c
index 45db4fb4b959..c242ae434355 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode-map.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode-map.c
@@ -13,6 +13,19 @@
 #include "transaction.h"
 #include "delalloc-space.h"
 
+static void fail_caching_thread(struct btrfs_root *root)
+{
+        struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info = root->fs_info;
+
+        btrfs_warn(fs_info, "failed to start inode caching task");
+        btrfs_clear_pending_and_info(fs_info, INODE_MAP_CACHE,
+                                     "disabling inode map caching");
+        spin_lock(&root->ino_cache_lock);
+        root->ino_cache_state = BTRFS_CACHE_ERROR;
+        spin_unlock(&root->ino_cache_lock);
+        wake_up(&root->ino_cache_wait);
+}
+
 static int caching_kthread(void *data)
 {
         struct btrfs_root *root = data;
@@ -165,11 +178,8 @@ static void start_caching(struct btrfs_root *root)
 
         tsk = kthread_run(caching_kthread, root, "btrfs-ino-cache-%llu",
                           root->root_key.objectid);
-        if (IS_ERR(tsk)) {
-                btrfs_warn(fs_info, "failed to start inode caching task");
-                btrfs_clear_pending_and_info(fs_info, INODE_MAP_CACHE,
-                                             "disabling inode map caching");
-        }
+        if (IS_ERR(tsk))
+                fail_caching_thread(root);
 }
 
 int btrfs_find_free_ino(struct btrfs_root *root, u64 *objectid)
@@ -187,11 +197,14 @@ again:
 
         wait_event(root->ino_cache_wait,
                    root->ino_cache_state == BTRFS_CACHE_FINISHED ||
+                   root->ino_cache_state == BTRFS_CACHE_ERROR ||
                    root->free_ino_ctl->free_space > 0);
 
         if (root->ino_cache_state == BTRFS_CACHE_FINISHED &&
             root->free_ino_ctl->free_space == 0)
                 return -ENOSPC;
+        else if (root->ino_cache_state == BTRFS_CACHE_ERROR)
+                return btrfs_find_free_objectid(root, objectid);
         else
                 goto again;
 }