Re: [BUG-2.4.10] deadlock in do_truncate() and shmem_getpage()

[Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>]

Tachino Nobuhiro wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I found a a deadlock bug in v2.4.10 due to invert locking order between
> inode->i_truncate_sem and inode->i_sem.
> Sequence is following.
> 
> do_truncate()
>         down(&inode->i_sem);
>         down_write(&inode->i_truncate_sem);
> 
> do_no_page()
>         down_read(&inode->i_truncate_sem);
> 
>         shmem_nopage();
>                 shmem_getpage();
>                         down(&inode->i_sem);
> 

i_truncate_sem is introduced in the ext3 patch - it's not in
the standard 2.4.10.

> Following patch works for me.
> 
> diff -r -u -N linux.org/fs/open.c linux/fs/open.c
> --- linux.org/fs/open.c Tue Oct  2 11:35:47 2001
> +++ linux/fs/open.c     Tue Oct  2 11:45:33 2001
> @@ -81,13 +81,13 @@
>         if (length < 0)
>                 return -EINVAL;
> 
> -       down(&inode->i_sem);
>         down_write(&inode->i_truncate_sem);
> +       down(&inode->i_sem);
>         newattrs.ia_size = length;
>         newattrs.ia_valid = ATTR_SIZE | ATTR_CTIME;
>         error = notify_change(dentry, &newattrs);
> -       up_write(&inode->i_truncate_sem);
>         up(&inode->i_sem);
> +       up_write(&inode->i_truncate_sem);
>         return error;
>  }

Indeed.  That's been there for months!  Thanks.

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