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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()...

       reply	other threads:[~2012-02-17 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]   ` <20120217003848.GB20071@boyd>
     [not found]     ` <20120217004922.GN23916@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
2012-02-17 17:48       ` Al Viro [this message]
2012-02-20 16:01         ` udf deadlock (was Re: hugetlbfs lockdep spew revisited.) Jan Kara

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