xfs: check for stale inode before acquiring iflock on push

An inode in the AIL can be flush locked and marked stale if
a cluster free transaction occurs at the right time. The
inode item is then marked as flushing, which causes xfsaild
to spin and leaves the filesystem stalled. This is
reproduced by running xfstests 273 in a loop for an
extended period of time.

Check for stale inodes before the flush lock. This marks
the inode as pinned, leads to a log flush and allows the
filesystem to proceed.
Signed-off-by: NBrian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: NMark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NBen Myers <bpm@sgi.com>

fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c

@@ -504,6 +504,14 @@ xfs_inode_item_push(
 		goto out_unlock;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Stale inode items should force out the iclog.
+	 */
+	if (ip->i_flags & XFS_ISTALE) {
+		rval = XFS_ITEM_PINNED;
+		goto out_unlock;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * Someone else is already flushing the inode.  Nothing we can do
 	 * here but wait for the flush to finish and remove the item from
@@ -514,15 +522,6 @@ xfs_inode_item_push(
 		goto out_unlock;
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * Stale inode items should force out the iclog.
-	 */
-	if (ip->i_flags & XFS_ISTALE) {
-		xfs_ifunlock(ip);
-		xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED);
-		return XFS_ITEM_PINNED;
-	}
-
 	ASSERT(iip->ili_fields != 0 || XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(ip->i_mount));
 	ASSERT(iip->ili_logged == 0 || XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(ip->i_mount));