linux-kernel - [PATCH] NFS4 fix for recursive locking problem.

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Date:	Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:24:56 +0530
From:	Srinivasa Ds <srinivasa@...ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...l.org, neilb@...e.de,
	nfs@...ts.sourceforge.net, bfields@...ldses.org,
	andros@...i.umich.edu
Subject: [PATCH] NFS4  fix for recursive locking problem.

When I was performing some operations on NFS, I got below error on server side.

===========================================================

=============================================
[ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
2.6.19-prep #1
---------------------------------------------
nfsd4/3525 is trying to acquire lock:
 (&inode->i_mutex){--..}, at: [<c0611e5a>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24

but task is already holding lock:
 (&inode->i_mutex){--..}, at: [<c0611e5a>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24

other info that might help us debug this:
2 locks held by nfsd4/3525:
 #0:  (client_mutex){--..}, at: [<c0611e5a>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24
 #1:  (&inode->i_mutex){--..}, at: [<c0611e5a>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24

stack backtrace:
 [<c04051ed>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x58/0x16a
 [<c04057fa>] show_trace+0xd/0x10
 [<c0405913>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
 [<c043b6f1>] __lock_acquire+0x778/0x99c
 [<c043be86>] lock_acquire+0x4b/0x6d
 [<c0611ceb>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xbc/0x20a
 [<c0611e5a>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24
 [<c047fd7e>] vfs_rmdir+0x76/0xf8
 [<f94b7ce9>] nfsd4_clear_clid_dir+0x2c/0x41 [nfsd]
 [<f94b7de9>] nfsd4_remove_clid_dir+0xb1/0xe8 [nfsd]
 [<f94b307b>] laundromat_main+0x9b/0x1c3 [nfsd]
 [<c04333d6>] run_workqueue+0x7a/0xbb
 [<c0433d0b>] worker_thread+0xd2/0x107
 [<c0436285>] kthread+0xc3/0xf2
 [<c0402005>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb
===================================================================
Cause for this problem was,2 successive mutex_lock calls on 2 diffrent inodes ,as shown below
======================================================
static int
nfsd4_clear_clid_dir(struct dentry *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
{
        int status;

        /* For now this directory should already be empty, but we empty it of
         * any regular files anyway, just in case the directory was created by
         * a kernel from the future.... */
        nfsd4_list_rec_dir(dentry, nfsd4_remove_clid_file);
        mutex_lock(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex);
        status = vfs_rmdir(dir->d_inode, dentry);
=======================================================
int vfs_rmdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
{
        int error = may_delete(dir, dentry, 1);

        if (error)
                return error;

        if (!dir->i_op || !dir->i_op->rmdir)
                return -EPERM;

        DQUOT_INIT(dir);

        mutex_lock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
===========================================================
So I have developed the patch to overcome this problem. Please let me know your comments on this.

Signed-off-by: Srinivasa DS <srinivasa@...ibm.com>




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