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From: Gurudas Pai <gurudas.pai@oracle.com>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	hch@infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	lkml20101129@newton.leun.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: prevent concurrent unmap_mapping_range() on the same inode
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:22:03 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D512E63.1040202@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Pmkpt-0006Cd-Q6@pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu>

> On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>> I had wanted to propose that for now you modify just fuse to use
>> i_alloc_sem for serialization there, and I provide a patch to
>> unmap_mapping_range() to give safety to whatever other cases there are
>> (I'm now sure there are other cases, but also sure that I cannot
>> safely identify them all and fix them correctly at source myself -
>> even if I found time to do the patches, they'd need at least a release
>> cycle to bed in with BUG_ONs).
> 
> Since fuse is the only one where the BUG has actually been triggered,
> and since there are problems with all the proposed generic approaches,
> I concur.  I didn't want to use i_alloc_sem here as it's more
> confusing than a new mutex.
> 
> Gurudas, could you please give this patch a go in your testcase?
I found this BUG with nfs, so trying with current patch may not help.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/12/29/9

Let me know if I have to run this
> 
> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
> Subject: fuse: prevent concurrent unmap on the same inode
> 
> Running a fuse filesystem with multiple open()'s in parallel can
> trigger a "kernel BUG at mm/truncate.c:475"
> 
> The reason is, unmap_mapping_range() is not prepared for more than
> one concurrent invocation per inode.
> 
> Truncate and hole punching already serialize with i_mutex.  Other
> callers of unmap_mapping_range() do not, and it's difficult to get
> i_mutex protection for all callers.  In particular ->d_revalidate(),
> which calls invalidate_inode_pages2_range() in fuse, may be called
> with or without i_mutex.
> 
> This patch adds a new mutex to fuse_inode to prevent running multiple
> concurrent unmap_mapping_range() on the same mapping.

Thanks,
-Guru



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  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-08 11:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-20 12:30 [PATCH] mm: prevent concurrent unmap_mapping_range() on the same inode Miklos Szeredi
2011-01-20 12:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-01-20 14:13   ` Miklos Szeredi
2011-01-22  4:46     ` Hugh Dickins
2011-01-24 19:47       ` Miklos Szeredi
2011-01-27  4:19         ` Hugh Dickins
2011-02-08 10:30           ` Miklos Szeredi
2011-02-08 11:52             ` Gurudas Pai [this message]
2011-02-08 11:59               ` Miklos Szeredi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-02-23 12:49 Miklos Szeredi
2011-02-23 22:20 ` Hugh Dickins
2011-02-23 22:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-23 23:12   ` Hugh Dickins
2011-03-02  9:48     ` Peter Zijlstra

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