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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] vfs and fs fixes
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:28:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120417182825.GX6589@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120417180129.GW6589@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 07:01:29PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:

> It isn't.  Hell knows - I wonder if taking s_vfs_rename_mutex in all cases
> in lock_rename() would be the right thing to do; it would remove the
> problem, but might cost us too much contention...

Actually, it's even worse.  ext4_move_extents() locks a _pair_ of
->i_mutex (having checked that both are non-directories first).  In
i_ino order.  So the only plausible ordering would be
	* directories by tree order (with s_vfs_rename_mutex held to
stabilize the tree topology)
	* non-directories after all directories, ordered in some consistent
way.  Which would have to be by inumber if we want to leave ext4 code
as-is.

Bruce: for now I'm dropping that patch.  We _might_ take ext4
mutex_inode_double_lock() into fs/namei.c and have it used by
vfs_rename_other(), but I'm not convinced that this is the right
thing to do.  Is there any other sane way to deal with nfsd problem?
i_mutex is already used for more things than I'd like...

Linus: I've removed that sucker from the queue; it should propagate to
git.kernel.org in a few.  Could you pull the rest?  Same place, the stats
are below:

Shortlog:
Al Viro (12):
      nfsd: fix b0rken error value for setattr on read-only mount
      nfsd: fix error values returned by nfsd4_lockt() when nfsd_open() fails
      nfsd: fix endianness breakage in TEST_STATEID handling
      nfsd: fix error value on allocation failure in nfsd4_decode_test_stateid()
      nfsd: fix compose_entry_fh() failure exits
      ext4: fix endianness breakage in ext4_split_extent_at()
      btrfs: btrfs_root_readonly() broken on big-endian
      ocfs2: ->l_next_free_req breakage on big-endian
      ocfs: ->rl_used breakage on big-endian
      ocfs2: ->rl_count endianness breakage
      ocfs2: ->e_leaf_clusters endianness breakage
      lockd: fix the endianness bug

Diffstat:
 fs/btrfs/ctree.h        |    2 +-
 fs/ext4/extents.c       |    2 +-
 fs/lockd/clnt4xdr.c     |    2 +-
 fs/lockd/clntxdr.c      |    2 +-
 fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c       |   22 ++++++++--------------
 fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c      |    7 ++++---
 fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c     |   23 +++++++++--------------
 fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c       |    4 ++--
 fs/ocfs2/alloc.c        |    2 +-
 fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c |   12 ++++++------
 fs/ocfs2/suballoc.c     |    4 ++--
 11 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-17 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-17  5:25 [git pull] vfs and fs fixes Al Viro
2012-04-17 15:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-17 16:22   ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-17 16:33     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-17 17:06       ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-17 17:59       ` Al Viro
2012-04-17 18:01   ` Al Viro
2012-04-17 18:28     ` Al Viro [this message]
2012-04-17 21:14       ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-17 22:08         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-17 23:44           ` Al Viro
2012-04-18  0:49             ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-18  0:56             ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-18 21:52             ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-25 15:20               ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-25 15:22               ` [PATCH 1/5] vfs: fix outdated i_mutex_lock_class documentation bfields
2012-04-25 15:22               ` [PATCH 2/5] vfs: pull ext4's double-i_mutex-locking into common code bfields
2012-04-25 15:22               ` [PATCH 3/5] vfs: don't use PARENT/CHILD lock classes for non-directories bfields
2012-04-25 15:22               ` [PATCH 4/5] vfs: take i_mutex on renamed file bfields
2012-04-25 15:22               ` [PATCH 5/5] vfs: change nondirectory i_mutex ordering to fix quota deadlock bfields
2012-04-25 15:28                 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-25 19:53                   ` Jan Kara
2012-04-25 19:58                     ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-20 11:15             ` [git pull] vfs and fs fixes Jan Kara
2012-04-24 19:52               ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-24 22:23                 ` Jan Kara
2012-04-25 11:29                   ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-25 16:26                     ` Jan Kara
2012-04-25 16:47                       ` Steven Whitehouse
2012-04-25 17:11                       ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-18  0:47           ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-19  3:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-04-19 14:50   ` Ted Ts'o
2012-04-24 17:40     ` Greg KH
2012-04-24 17:45       ` Al Viro
2012-04-24 17:59         ` Greg KH
2012-04-24 18:04           ` Al Viro
2012-04-24 20:37             ` Greg KH
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2013-09-18 22:52 Al Viro

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