Merge tag 'v3.7' into v4l_for_linus

Linux 3.7

* tag 'v3.7': (1545 commits)
  Linux 3.7
  Input: matrix-keymap - provide proper module license
  Revert "revert "Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD""" and associated damage
  ipv4: ip_check_defrag must not modify skb before unsharing
  Revert "mm: avoid waking kswapd for THP allocations when compaction is deferred or contended"
  inet_diag: validate port comparison byte code to prevent unsafe reads
  inet_diag: avoid unsafe and nonsensical prefix matches in inet_diag_bc_run()
  inet_diag: validate byte code to prevent oops in inet_diag_bc_run()
  inet_diag: fix oops for IPv4 AF_INET6 TCP SYN-RECV state
  mm: vmscan: fix inappropriate zone congestion clearing
  vfs: fix O_DIRECT read past end of block device
  net: gro: fix possible panic in skb_gro_receive()
  tcp: bug fix Fast Open client retransmission
  tmpfs: fix shared mempolicy leak
  mm: vmscan: do not keep kswapd looping forever due to individual uncompactable zones
  mm: compaction: validate pfn range passed to isolate_freepages_block
  mmc: sh-mmcif: avoid oops on spurious interrupts (second try)
  Revert misapplied "mmc: sh-mmcif: avoid oops on spurious interrupts"
  mmc: sdhci-s3c: fix missing clock for gpio card-detect
  lib/Makefile: Fix oid_registry build dependency
  ...

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++;