linux-kernel - [patch] lockdep: annotate vfs_rmdir for filesystems that take i_mutex in delete

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Date:	Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:47:21 +0200
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, reiserfs-list@...esys.com,
	reiserfs-dev@...esys.com, viro@....linux.org.uk,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, reiser@...esys.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
Subject: [patch] lockdep: annotate vfs_rmdir for filesystems that take
	i_mutex in delete_inode

On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 22:33 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:16:42 +0200
> The VFS takes the directory i_mutex and reiserfs_delete_inode() takes the
> to-be-deleted file's i_mutex.
> 
> That's notabug and lockdep will need to be taught about it.

[2nd try, now with coffee]

This is another 3 level locking ordering:
do_rmdir takes the mutex of the parent directory
vfs_rmdir takes the mutex of the victim
shrink_dcache_parent ends up in the reiser delete_inode which takes the
mutex of dead children of the victim

the I_MUTEX ordering rules are

I_MUTEX_PARENT -> I_MUTEX_CHILD -> <normal>

do_rmdir already has I_MUTEX_PARENT, delete_inode does <normal> so
vfs_rmdir needs I_MUTEX_CHILD (which is also logical)

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>

Index: linux-2.6.18-rc2-git5/fs/namei.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.18-rc2-git5.orig/fs/namei.c
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc2-git5/fs/namei.c
@@ -1967,7 +1967,7 @@ int vfs_rmdir(struct inode *dir, struct 
 
 	DQUOT_INIT(dir);
 
-	mutex_lock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
+	mutex_lock_nested(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_CHILD);
 	dentry_unhash(dentry);
 	if (d_mountpoint(dentry))
 		error = -EBUSY;

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