Re: 2.6.27.7 vanilla, project quota enabled and process stuck in D state (repeatable every time)

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@maven.pl>]

On Wednesday 03 of December 2008, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 10:42:29PM +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > On Wednesday 03 of December 2008, Dave Chinner wrote:

> > [arekm@farm rpm]$ touch /home/users/arekm/tmp/aa
> > [arekm@farm rpm]$ ./a.out
> > ret=-1 Invalid cross-device link
>
> Well, that's what we needed to know. The bug:
>
> 199         /*
> 200          * Lock all the participating inodes. Depending upon whether
> 201          * the target_name exists in the target directory, and
> 202          * whether the target directory is the same as the source
> 203          * directory, we can lock from 2 to 4 inodes.
> 204          */
> 205  >>>>>  xfs_lock_inodes(inodes, num_inodes, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);
> 206
> 207         /*
> 208          * If we are using project inheritance, we only allow renames
> 209          * into our tree when the project IDs are the same; else the
> 210          * tree quota mechanism would be circumvented.
> 211          */
> 212         if (unlikely((target_dp->i_d.di_flags & XFS_DIFLAG_PROJINHERIT)
> && 213                      (target_dp->i_d.di_projid !=
> src_ip->i_d.di_projid))) { 214                 error = XFS_ERROR(EXDEV);
> 215  >>>>>>>        xfs_rename_unlock4(inodes, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED);
> 216                 xfs_trans_cancel(tp, cancel_flags);
> 217                 goto std_return;
> 218         }
>
> Is that the unlock of the inodes is using the incorrect lock
> type for the unlock, (inodes lock XFS_ILOCK_EXCL, unlocked
> XFS_ILOCK_SHARED) which means they don't get unlocked and the next attempt
> to do anything with those inodes will hang.
>
> Compile-tested-only patch below that should fix the problem.

It fixes the problem for me. Thanks! I hope that it will reach stable@ team 
for 2.6.27.9.

> Cheers,
>
> Dave.



-- 
Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
arekm / maven.pl            http://ftp.pld-linux.org/

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