2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ (cherry picked from commit f3ce8064b388ccf420012c5a4907aae4f13fe9d0) Move the check to make sure the original and donor inodes are different earlier, to avoid a potential deadlock by trying to lock the same inode twice. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/ext4/move_extent.c | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ext4/move_extent.c +++ b/fs/ext4/move_extent.c @@ -1001,14 +1001,6 @@ mext_check_arguments(struct inode *orig_ return -EINVAL; } - /* orig and donor should be different file */ - if (orig_inode->i_ino == donor_inode->i_ino) { - ext4_debug("ext4 move extent: The argument files should not " - "be same file [ino:orig %lu, donor %lu]\n", - orig_inode->i_ino, donor_inode->i_ino); - return -EINVAL; - } - /* Ext4 move extent supports only extent based file */ if (!(EXT4_I(orig_inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL)) { ext4_debug("ext4 move extent: orig file is not extents " @@ -1232,6 +1224,14 @@ ext4_move_extents(struct file *o_filp, s int block_len_in_page; int uninit; + /* orig and donor should be different file */ + if (orig_inode->i_ino == donor_inode->i_ino) { + ext4_debug("ext4 move extent: The argument files should not " + "be same file [ino:orig %lu, donor %lu]\n", + orig_inode->i_ino, donor_inode->i_ino); + return -EINVAL; + } + /* protect orig and donor against a truncate */ ret1 = mext_inode_double_lock(orig_inode, donor_inode); if (ret1 < 0) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/