From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Cc: kernel-testers@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
a.beregalov@gmail.com, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: fix double unlock in xfs_swap_extents()
Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 21:57:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A039F85.8010506@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1241745202-7452-1-git-send-email-felixb@sgi.com>
Felix Blyakher wrote:
> Regreesion from commit ef8f7fc, which rearranged the code in
> xfs_swap_extents() leading to double unlock of xfs inode iolock.
> That resulted in xfs_fsr deadlocking itself on platforms, which
> don't handle double unlock of rw_semaphore nicely. It caused the
> count go negative, which represents the write holder, without
> really having one. ia64 is one of the platforms where deadlock
> was easily reproduced and the fix was tested.
>
> Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Also-written-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Independently-arrived-at-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
;)
But seriously ...
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
> ---
> fs/xfs/xfs_dfrag.c | 8 +++++---
> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_dfrag.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_dfrag.c
> index e6d839b..7465f9e 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_dfrag.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_dfrag.c
> @@ -347,13 +347,15 @@ xfs_swap_extents(
>
> error = xfs_trans_commit(tp, XFS_TRANS_SWAPEXT);
>
> -out_unlock:
> - xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL | XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL);
> - xfs_iunlock(tip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL | XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL);
> out:
> kmem_free(tempifp);
> return error;
>
> +out_unlock:
> + xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL | XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL);
> + xfs_iunlock(tip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL | XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL);
> + goto out;
> +
> out_trans_cancel:
> xfs_trans_cancel(tp, 0);
> goto out_unlock;
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-08 2:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-08 1:13 [PATCH] xfs: fix double unlock in xfs_swap_extents() Felix Blyakher
2009-05-08 2:57 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2009-05-08 5:20 ` Felix Blyakher
2009-05-08 6:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
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