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* [BUG-2.4.10] deadlock in do_truncate() and shmem_getpage()
@ 2001-10-02  6:14 Tachino Nobuhiro
  2001-10-02  6:33 ` Andrew Morton
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Tachino Nobuhiro @ 2001-10-02  6:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel


Hello, 

I found a a deadlock bug in v2.4.10 due to invert locking order between
inode->i_truncate_sem and inode->i_sem.
Sequence is following.

do_truncate()
	down(&inode->i_sem);
	down_write(&inode->i_truncate_sem);


do_no_page()
	down_read(&inode->i_truncate_sem);

	shmem_nopage();
		shmem_getpage();
			down(&inode->i_sem);
	

Following patch works for me.


diff -r -u -N linux.org/fs/open.c linux/fs/open.c
--- linux.org/fs/open.c	Tue Oct  2 11:35:47 2001
+++ linux/fs/open.c	Tue Oct  2 11:45:33 2001
@@ -81,13 +81,13 @@
 	if (length < 0)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	down(&inode->i_sem);
 	down_write(&inode->i_truncate_sem);
+	down(&inode->i_sem);
 	newattrs.ia_size = length;
 	newattrs.ia_valid = ATTR_SIZE | ATTR_CTIME;
 	error = notify_change(dentry, &newattrs);
-	up_write(&inode->i_truncate_sem);
 	up(&inode->i_sem);
+	up_write(&inode->i_truncate_sem);
 	return error;
 }
 

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