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
next prev parent 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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