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From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
To: Linux FS Maling List <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, reiserfs-devel <reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] reiserfs: fix deadlocks with quotas
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:36:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <501B2B04.2050706@suse.com> (raw)

The BKL push-down for reiserfs made lock recursion a special case that needs
to be handled explicitly. One of the cases that was unhandled is dropping
the quota during inode eviction. Both reiserfs_evict_inode and
reiserfs_write_dquot take the write lock, but when the journal lock is
taken it only drops one the references. The locking rules are that the journal
lock be acquired before the write lock so leaving the reference open leads
to a ABBA deadlock.

This patch pushes the unlock up before clear_inode and avoids the recursive
locking.

Another ABBA situation can occur when the write lock is dropped while reading
the bitmap buffer while in the quota code. When the lock is reacquired, it
will deadlock against dquot->dq_lock and dqopt->dqio_mutex in the dquot_acquire
path. It's safe to retain the lock across the read and should be cached under
write load.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
---
 fs/reiserfs/bitmap.c |    2 --
 fs/reiserfs/inode.c  |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/reiserfs/bitmap.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/bitmap.c
@@ -1334,9 +1334,7 @@ struct buffer_head *reiserfs_read_bitmap
 	else if (bitmap == 0)
 		block = (REISERFS_DISK_OFFSET_IN_BYTES >> sb->s_blocksize_bits) + 1;
 
-	reiserfs_write_unlock(sb);
 	bh = sb_bread(sb, block);
-	reiserfs_write_lock(sb);
 	if (bh == NULL)
 		reiserfs_warning(sb, "sh-2029: %s: bitmap block (#%u) "
 		                 "reading failed", __func__, block);
--- a/fs/reiserfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/inode.c
@@ -76,10 +76,10 @@ void reiserfs_evict_inode(struct inode *
 		;
 	}
       out:
+	reiserfs_write_unlock_once(inode->i_sb, depth);
 	clear_inode(inode);	/* note this must go after the journal_end to prevent deadlock */
 	dquot_drop(inode);
 	inode->i_blocks = 0;
-	reiserfs_write_unlock_once(inode->i_sb, depth);
 	return;
 
 no_delete:

-- 
Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs

             reply	other threads:[~2012-08-03  1:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-03  1:36 Jeff Mahoney [this message]
2012-08-14 17:20 ` [PATCH] reiserfs: fix deadlocks with quotas Jan Kara

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