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kill-the-bkl/reiserfs: acquire the inode mutex safely
While searching a pathname, an inode mutex can be acquired in do_lookup() which calls reiserfs_lookup() which in turn acquires the write lock. On the other side reiserfs_fill_super() can acquire the write_lock and then call reiserfs_lookup_privroot() which can acquire an inode mutex (the root of the mount point). So we theoretically risk an AB - BA lock inversion that could lead to a deadlock. As for other lock dependencies found since the bkl to mutex conversion, the fix is to use reiserfs_mutex_lock_safe() which drops the lock dependency to the write lock. [ Impact: fix a possible deadlock with reiserfs ] Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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@ -62,6 +62,41 @@ void reiserfs_write_unlock(struct super_block *s);
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int reiserfs_write_lock_once(struct super_block *s);
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void reiserfs_write_unlock_once(struct super_block *s, int lock_depth);
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/*
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* Several mutexes depend on the write lock.
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* However sometimes we want to relax the write lock while we hold
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* these mutexes, according to the release/reacquire on schedule()
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* properties of the Bkl that were used.
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* Reiserfs performances and locking were based on this scheme.
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* Now that the write lock is a mutex and not the bkl anymore, doing so
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* may result in a deadlock:
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*
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* A acquire write_lock
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* A acquire j_commit_mutex
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* A release write_lock and wait for something
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* B acquire write_lock
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* B can't acquire j_commit_mutex and sleep
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* A can't acquire write lock anymore
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* deadlock
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*
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* What we do here is avoiding such deadlock by playing the same game
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* than the Bkl: if we can't acquire a mutex that depends on the write lock,
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* we release the write lock, wait a bit and then retry.
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*
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* The mutexes concerned by this hack are:
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* - The commit mutex of a journal list
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* - The flush mutex
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* - The journal lock
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* - The inode mutex
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*/
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static inline void reiserfs_mutex_lock_safe(struct mutex *m,
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struct super_block *s)
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{
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reiserfs_write_unlock(s);
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mutex_lock(m);
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reiserfs_write_lock(s);
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}
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/*
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* When we schedule, we usually want to also release the write lock,
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* according to the previous bkl based locking scheme of reiserfs.
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