From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Subject: locking problems: Btrfs: be more selective in the defrag ioctl Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:38:51 +0300 Message-ID: <20100320113851.GB5331@bicker> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: chris.mason@oracle.com Return-path: List-ID: Hi Chris, There is a locking problem in 940100a4a7b78 "Btrfs: be more selective in the defrag ioctl" There are two places where we break out of the while loop under the lock. fs/btrfs/ioctl.c +708 btrfs_defrag_file(159) error: double lock 'mutex:&inode->i_mutex' 600 mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); 601 if (range->flags & BTRFS_DEFRAG_RANGE_COMPRESS) 602 BTRFS_I(inode)->force_compress = 1; 603 604 ret = btrfs_check_data_free_space(root, inode, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); 605 if (ret) { 606 ret = -ENOSPC; 607 break; Here. 608 } 609 610 ret = btrfs_reserve_metadata_for_delalloc(root, inode, 1); 611 if (ret) { 612 btrfs_free_reserved_data_space(root, inode, 613 PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); 614 ret = -ENOSPC; 615 break; And here. 616 } Maybe we should have "goto err_reservations;" instead of break? I don't know the code well enough to say. regards, dan carpenter