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1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
index 7f4f9370d0e7..4dad756962d0 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
@@ -2387,14 +2387,27 @@ xlog_state_do_callback(
/*
- * update the last_sync_lsn before we drop the
+ * Completion of a iclog IO does not imply that
+ * a transaction has completed, as transactions
+ * can be large enough to span many iclogs. We
+ * cannot change the tail of the log half way
+ * through a transaction as this may be the only
+ * transaction in the log and moving th etail to
+ * point to the middle of it will prevent
+ * recovery from finding the start of the
+ * transaction. Hence we should only update the
+ * last_sync_lsn if this iclog contains
+ * transaction completion callbacks on it.
+ *
+ * We have to do this before we drop the
* icloglock to ensure we are the only one that
* can update it.
*/
ASSERT(XFS_LSN_CMP(atomic64_read(&log->l_last_sync_lsn),
be64_to_cpu(iclog->ic_header.h_lsn)) <= 0);
- atomic64_set(&log->l_last_sync_lsn,
- be64_to_cpu(iclog->ic_header.h_lsn));
+ if (iclog->ic_callback)
+ atomic64_set(&log->l_last_sync_lsn,
+ be64_to_cpu(iclog->ic_header.h_lsn));
} else
ioerrors++;