From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Subject: udf deadlock (was Re: hugetlbfs lockdep spew revisited.)
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:48:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120217174818.GP23916@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120217004922.GN23916@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:49:22AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> Folks, this is not a false positive and it has nothing to do with misannotation
> for directories. Deadlock is real; I have no idea WTF do we what ->i_mutex
> held over that area in hugetlbfs ->mmap(), but doing that is really, really
> wrong, whatever the reason.
Arrrrgh... Some grepping around has uncovered another deadlock on
i_mutex/mmap_sem and this one is not hard to hit at all.
Thread A:
opens file on UDF (O_RDWR open)
does big, fat write() to it
Thread B:
opens the same file (also O_RDWR)
mmaps it
closes
does munmap()
and there we are - munmap() will end up closing the second struct file,
call udf_release_file() and we are hitting ->i_mutex while under
->mmap_sem. Blocking on it, actually, since generic_file_aio_write()
in the first thread is holding ->i_mutex. And as soon as thread A gets
around to faulting the next piece of data in, well... To widen the
window a lot, mmap something large sitting on NFS and do write() from
that mmapped area. Race window as wide as one could ask for...
What happens there is prealloc discard on close; do we even want ->i_mutex
there these days? Note that there's also
down_write(&UDF_I(inode)->i_data_sem);
in udf_release_file()...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-17 17:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-17 0:08 hugetlbfs lockdep spew revisited Dave Jones
2012-02-17 0:16 ` Josh Boyer
2012-02-17 0:34 ` Al Viro
2012-02-17 0:38 ` Tyler Hicks
2012-02-17 0:49 ` Al Viro
2012-02-17 3:42 ` Tyler Hicks
2012-02-21 18:21 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-02-17 6:47 ` J. R. Okajima
2012-02-17 17:48 ` Al Viro [this message]
2012-02-20 16:01 ` udf deadlock (was Re: hugetlbfs lockdep spew revisited.) Jan Kara
2012-02-18 10:55 ` hugetlbfs lockdep spew revisited Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-02-17 0:27 ` Al Viro
2012-02-23 9:27 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
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