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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>,
	Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>,
	Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm>,
	Reiserfs <reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gmail.com>,
	"Trenton D. Adams" <trenton.d.adams@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>,
	Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it>,
	Marcel Hilzinger <mhilzinger@linuxnewmedia.de>,
	Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@gmail.com>,
	Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] kill-the-bkl/reiserfs: fix "reiserfs lock" / "inode mutex" lock inversion dependency
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:32:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1251167570-5233-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1251167570-5233-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>

reiserfs_xattr_init is called with the reiserfs write lock held, but
if the ".reiserfs_priv" entry is not created, we take the superblock
root directory inode mutex until .reiserfs_priv is created.

This creates a lock dependency inversion against other sites such as
reiserfs_file_release() which takes an inode mutex and the reiserfs
lock after.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Cc: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
---
 fs/reiserfs/xattr.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
index 59870a4..58aa8e7 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
@@ -1004,7 +1004,7 @@ int reiserfs_xattr_init(struct super_block *s, int mount_flags)
 		goto error;
 
 	if (!privroot->d_inode && !(mount_flags & MS_RDONLY)) {
-		mutex_lock(&s->s_root->d_inode->i_mutex);
+		reiserfs_mutex_lock_safe(&s->s_root->d_inode->i_mutex, s);
 		err = create_privroot(REISERFS_SB(s)->priv_root);
 		mutex_unlock(&s->s_root->d_inode->i_mutex);
 	}
-- 
1.6.2.3

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-25  2:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-25  2:32 [PATCH 0/4] kill-the-bkl/reiserfs: fix some lock dependency inversions Frederic Weisbecker
2009-08-25  2:32 ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2009-08-25  2:32 ` [PATCH 2/4] kill-the-bkl/reiserfs: fix recursive reiserfs lock in reiserfs_mkdir() Frederic Weisbecker
2009-08-25  2:32 ` [PATCH 3/4] kill-the-bkl/reiserfs: fix recursive reiserfs write lock in reiserfs_commit_write() Frederic Weisbecker
2009-08-25  2:32 ` [PATCH 4/4] kill-the-bkl/reiserfs: panic in case of lock imbalance Frederic Weisbecker
2009-08-26 20:13 ` [PATCH 0/4] kill-the-bkl/reiserfs: fix some lock dependency inversions Alexander Beregalov
2009-09-01 22:16   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-09-14 20:37   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-09-14 21:33     ` Alexander Beregalov
2009-09-14 21:50       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-09-16 20:37       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-09-16 23:37         ` Alexander Beregalov
2009-09-17  5:06           ` [PATCH] kill-the-bkl/reiserfs: Fix induced mm->mmap_sem to sysfs_mutex dependency Frederic Weisbecker
2009-09-22 13:55             ` Alexander Beregalov
2009-09-29  7:46               ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-09-29 10:22                 ` Alexander Beregalov
2009-10-05 18:12                   ` [PATCH] kill-the-bkl/reiserfs: fix reiserfs lock to cpu_add_remove_lock dependency Frederic Weisbecker

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