xfs: more sensible inode refcounting for ialloc

Currently we return iodes from xfs_ialloc with just a single reference held.
But we need two references, as one is dropped during transaction commit and
the second needs to be transfered to the VFS.  Change xfs_ialloc to use
xfs_iget plus xfs_trans_ijoin_ref to grab two references to the inode,
and remove the now superflous IHOLD calls from all callers.  This also
greatly simplifies the error handling in xfs_create and also allow to remove
xfs_trans_iget as no other callers are left.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 45 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c
index d8e6f8cd6f0c..258d4f98eb9b 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c
@@ -1310,7 +1310,7 @@ xfs_create(
         error = xfs_qm_vop_dqalloc(dp, current_fsuid(), current_fsgid(), prid,
                         XFS_QMOPT_QUOTALL | XFS_QMOPT_INHERIT, &udqp, &gdqp);
         if (error)
-                goto std_return;
+                return error;
 
         if (is_dir) {
                 rdev = 0;
@@ -1390,12 +1390,6 @@ xfs_create(
         }
 
         /*
-         * At this point, we've gotten a newly allocated inode.
-         * It is locked (and joined to the transaction).
-         */
-        ASSERT(xfs_isilocked(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL));
-
-        /*
          * Now we join the directory inode to the transaction.  We do not do it
          * earlier because xfs_dir_ialloc might commit the previous transaction
          * (and release all the locks).  An error from here on will result in
@@ -1440,22 +1434,13 @@ xfs_create(
          */
         xfs_qm_vop_create_dqattach(tp, ip, udqp, gdqp);
 
-        /*
-         * xfs_trans_commit normally decrements the vnode ref count
-         * when it unlocks the inode. Since we want to return the
-         * vnode to the caller, we bump the vnode ref count now.
-         */
-        IHOLD(ip);
-
         error = xfs_bmap_finish(&tp, &free_list, &committed);
         if (error)
-                goto out_abort_rele;
+                goto out_bmap_cancel;
 
         error = xfs_trans_commit(tp, XFS_TRANS_RELEASE_LOG_RES);
-        if (error) {
-                IRELE(ip);
-                goto out_dqrele;
-        }
+        if (error)
+                goto out_release_inode;
 
         xfs_qm_dqrele(udqp);
         xfs_qm_dqrele(gdqp);
@@ -1469,27 +1454,21 @@ xfs_create(
         cancel_flags |= XFS_TRANS_ABORT;
  out_trans_cancel:
         xfs_trans_cancel(tp, cancel_flags);
- out_dqrele:
+ out_release_inode:
+        /*
+         * Wait until after the current transaction is aborted to
+         * release the inode.  This prevents recursive transactions
+         * and deadlocks from xfs_inactive.
+         */
+        if (ip)
+                IRELE(ip);
+
         xfs_qm_dqrele(udqp);
         xfs_qm_dqrele(gdqp);
 
         if (unlock_dp_on_error)
                 xfs_iunlock(dp, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);
- std_return:
         return error;
-
- out_abort_rele:
-        /*
-         * Wait until after the current transaction is aborted to
-         * release the inode.  This prevents recursive transactions
-         * and deadlocks from xfs_inactive.
-         */
-        xfs_bmap_cancel(&free_list);
-        cancel_flags |= XFS_TRANS_ABORT;
-        xfs_trans_cancel(tp, cancel_flags);
-        IRELE(ip);
-        unlock_dp_on_error = B_FALSE;
-        goto out_dqrele;
 }
 
 #ifdef DEBUG
@@ -2114,9 +2093,8 @@ xfs_symlink(
                                   XFS_BMAPI_WRITE | XFS_BMAPI_METADATA,
                                   &first_block, resblks, mval, &nmaps,
                                   &free_list);
-                if (error) {
-                        goto error1;
-                }
+                if (error)
+                        goto error2;
 
                 if (resblks)
                         resblks -= fs_blocks;
@@ -2148,7 +2126,7 @@ xfs_symlink(
         error = xfs_dir_createname(tp, dp, link_name, ip->i_ino,
                                         &first_block, &free_list, resblks);
         if (error)
-                goto error1;
+                goto error2;
         xfs_trans_ichgtime(tp, dp, XFS_ICHGTIME_MOD | XFS_ICHGTIME_CHG);
         xfs_trans_log_inode(tp, dp, XFS_ILOG_CORE);
 
@@ -2161,13 +2139,6 @@ xfs_symlink(
                 xfs_trans_set_sync(tp);
         }
 
-        /*
-         * xfs_trans_commit normally decrements the vnode ref count
-         * when it unlocks the inode. Since we want to return the
-         * vnode to the caller, we bump the vnode ref count now.
-         */
-        IHOLD(ip);
-
         error = xfs_bmap_finish(&tp, &free_list, &committed);
         if (error) {
                 goto error2;