xfs: unmount does not wait for shutdown during unmount

And interesting situation can occur if a log IO error occurs during
the unmount of a filesystem. The cases reported have the same
signature - the update of the superblock counters fails due to a log
write IO error:

XFS (dm-16): xfs_do_force_shutdown(0x2) called from line 1170 of file fs/xfs/xfs_log.c.  Return address = 0xffffffffa08a44a1
XFS (dm-16): Log I/O Error Detected.  Shutting down filesystem
XFS (dm-16): Unable to update superblock counters. Freespace may not be correct on next mount.
XFS (dm-16): xfs_log_force: error 5 returned.
XFS (¿-¿¿¿): Please umount the filesystem and rectify the problem(s)

It can be seen that the last line of output contains a corrupt
device name - this is because the log and xfs_mount structures have
already been freed by the time this message is printed. A kernel
oops closely follows.

The issue is that the shutdown is occurring in a separate IO
completion thread to the unmount. Once the shutdown processing has
started and all the iclogs are marked with XLOG_STATE_IOERROR, the
log shutdown code wakes anyone waiting on a log force so they can
process the shutdown error. This wakes up the unmount code that
is doing a synchronous transaction to update the superblock
counters.

The unmount path now sees all the iclogs are marked with
XLOG_STATE_IOERROR and so never waits on them again, knowing that if
it does, there will not be a wakeup trigger for it and we will hang
the unmount if we do. Hence the unmount runs through all the
remaining code and frees all the filesystem structures while the
xlog_iodone() is still processing the shutdown. When the log
shutdown processing completes, xfs_do_force_shutdown() emits the
"Please umount the filesystem and rectify the problem(s)" message,
and xlog_iodone() then aborts all the objects attached to the iclog.
An iclog that has already been freed....

The real issue here is that there is no serialisation point between
the log IO and the unmount. We have serialisations points for log
writes, log forces, reservations, etc, but we don't actually have
any code that wakes for log IO to fully complete. We do that for all
other types of object, so why not iclogbufs?

Well, it turns out that we can easily do this. We've got xfs_buf
handles, and that's what everyone else uses for IO serialisation.
i.e. bp->b_sema. So, lets hold iclogbufs locked over IO, and only
release the lock in xlog_iodone() when we are finished with the
buffer. That way before we tear down the iclog, we can lock and
unlock the buffer to ensure IO completion has finished completely
before we tear it down.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Bob Mastors <bob.mastors@solidfire.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>

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