Patch "ocfs2: should wait dio before inode lock in ocfs2_setattr()" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ocfs2: should wait dio before inode lock in ocfs2_setattr()

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     ocfs2-should-wait-dio-before-inode-lock-in-ocfs2_setattr.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 28f5a8a7c033cbf3e32277f4cc9c6afd74f05300 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: alex chen <alex.chen@huawei.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:31:40 -0800
Subject: ocfs2: should wait dio before inode lock in ocfs2_setattr()

From: alex chen <alex.chen@huawei.com>

commit 28f5a8a7c033cbf3e32277f4cc9c6afd74f05300 upstream.

we should wait dio requests to finish before inode lock in
ocfs2_setattr(), otherwise the following deadlock will happen:

process 1                  process 2                    process 3
truncate file 'A'          end_io of writing file 'A'   receiving the bast messages
ocfs2_setattr
 ocfs2_inode_lock_tracker
  ocfs2_inode_lock_full
 inode_dio_wait
  __inode_dio_wait
  -->waiting for all dio
  requests finish
                                                        dlm_proxy_ast_handler
                                                         dlm_do_local_bast
                                                          ocfs2_blocking_ast
                                                           ocfs2_generic_handle_bast
                                                            set OCFS2_LOCK_BLOCKED flag
                        dio_end_io
                         dio_bio_end_aio
                          dio_complete
                           ocfs2_dio_end_io
                            ocfs2_dio_end_io_write
                             ocfs2_inode_lock
                              __ocfs2_cluster_lock
                               ocfs2_wait_for_mask
                               -->waiting for OCFS2_LOCK_BLOCKED
                               flag to be cleared, that is waiting
                               for 'process 1' unlocking the inode lock
                           inode_dio_end
                           -->here dec the i_dio_count, but will never
                           be called, so a deadlock happened.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/59F81636.70508@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Alex Chen <alex.chen@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jun Piao <piaojun@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <jiangqi903@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Changwei Ge <ge.changwei@h3c.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@versity.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/ocfs2/file.c |    9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/ocfs2/file.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/file.c
@@ -1151,6 +1151,13 @@ int ocfs2_setattr(struct dentry *dentry,
 		dquot_initialize(inode);
 	size_change = S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && attr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE;
 	if (size_change) {
+		/*
+		 * Here we should wait dio to finish before inode lock
+		 * to avoid a deadlock between ocfs2_setattr() and
+		 * ocfs2_dio_end_io_write()
+		 */
+		inode_dio_wait(inode);
+
 		status = ocfs2_rw_lock(inode, 1);
 		if (status < 0) {
 			mlog_errno(status);
@@ -1170,8 +1177,6 @@ int ocfs2_setattr(struct dentry *dentry,
 		if (status)
 			goto bail_unlock;
 
-		inode_dio_wait(inode);
-
 		if (i_size_read(inode) >= attr->ia_size) {
 			if (ocfs2_should_order_data(inode)) {
 				status = ocfs2_begin_ordered_truncate(inode,


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from alex.chen@huawei.com are

queue-3.18/ocfs2-should-wait-dio-before-inode-lock-in-ocfs2_setattr.patch