From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752323Ab0CTLjE (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:39:04 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f209.google.com ([209.85.218.209]:38959 "EHLO mail-bw0-f209.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752075Ab0CTLjA (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:39:00 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:user-agent; b=in/ds0SjLxCYbgBj24skPh7FNCJ9nTWGL9AnUNxHFAh/k8eGrkw5CE0z6Hdj7u1RNj NS6YADfWbFE5rQDUCZfjAgoiRWvyo0PVuwzR+x8QoCLw8HnFqGfcUPXeZIB4XmjYFvKh 2EQ8TcBf1BtaiuxhUkz/r3Nqg41f5XEGIN4KU= Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:38:51 +0300 From: Dan Carpenter To: chris.mason@oracle.com Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: locking problems: Btrfs: be more selective in the defrag ioctl Message-ID: <20100320113851.GB5331@bicker> Mail-Followup-To: Dan Carpenter , chris.mason@oracle.com, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Chris, There is a locking problem in 940100a4a7b78 "Btrfs: be more selective in the defrag ioctl" There are two places where we break out of the while loop under the lock. fs/btrfs/ioctl.c +708 btrfs_defrag_file(159) error: double lock 'mutex:&inode->i_mutex' 600 mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); 601 if (range->flags & BTRFS_DEFRAG_RANGE_COMPRESS) 602 BTRFS_I(inode)->force_compress = 1; 603 604 ret = btrfs_check_data_free_space(root, inode, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); 605 if (ret) { 606 ret = -ENOSPC; 607 break; Here. 608 } 609 610 ret = btrfs_reserve_metadata_for_delalloc(root, inode, 1); 611 if (ret) { 612 btrfs_free_reserved_data_space(root, inode, 613 PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); 614 ret = -ENOSPC; 615 break; And here. 616 } Maybe we should have "goto err_reservations;" instead of break? I don't know the code well enough to say. regards, dan carpenter