btrfs: use smp_mb__after_atomic() when forcing COW in create_pending_snapshot()
[ Upstream commit 45c22246 ] After setting the BTRFS_ROOT_FORCE_COW flag on the root we are doing a full write barrier, smp_wmb(), but we don't need to, all we need is a smp_mb__after_atomic(). The use of the smp_wmb() is from the old days when we didn't use a bit and used instead an int field in the root to signal if cow is forced. After the int field was changed to a bit in the root's state (flags field), we forgot to update the memory barrier in create_pending_snapshot() to smp_mb__after_atomic(), but we did the change in commit_fs_roots() after clearing BTRFS_ROOT_FORCE_COW. That happened in commit 27cdeb70 ("Btrfs: use bitfield instead of integer data type for the some variants in btrfs_root"). On the reader side, in should_cow_block(), we also use the counterpart smp_mb__before_atomic() which generates further confusion. So change the smp_wmb() to smp_mb__after_atomic(). In fact we don't even need any barrier at all since create_pending_snapshot() is called in the critical section of a transaction commit and therefore no one can concurrently join/attach the transaction, or start a new one, until the transaction is unblocked. By the time someone starts a new transaction and enters should_cow_block(), a lot of implicit memory barriers already took place by having acquired several locks such as fs_info->trans_lock and extent buffer locks on the root node at least. Nevertlheless, for consistency use smp_mb__after_atomic() after setting the force cow bit in create_pending_snapshot(). Signed-off-by:Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Reviewed-by:
David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by:
David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by:
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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