linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] reiser4: page lock recursion in reiser4_write

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Message-Id: <200703141930.46868.vs@namesys.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:30:46 +0300
From:	"Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@...esys.com>
To:	"Nate Diller" <nate.diller@...il.com>
Cc:	reiserfs-dev@...esys.com,
	"Linux Kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] reiser4: page lock recursion in reiser4_write_extent

Hello

On Wednesday 14 March 2007 08:40, Nate Diller wrote:
> This little code snippet seems to have a page_lock recursion, in
> addition to overall looking particularly fragile to me.  It seems to
> be handling the case where a page needs to be brought uptodate because
> a partial page write is being done.  The page gets locked as many as 3
> times, each checking PageUptodate, however the two failure cases here
> go BUG() instead of returning an error.  I'm starting to think that
> somehow the whole suspect branch just never gets taken, because
> otherwise I would expect to see bug reports related to -EIO, -ENOMEM,
> etc causing this to barf.
> 
> either way, it seems there's a lock recursion if another thread races
> to bring @page uptodate while we're waiting on the first lock_page()
> call.
> 
> ---
> 
>                 page = jnode_page(jnodes[i]);
>                 if (page_offset(page) < inode->i_size &&
>                     !PageUptodate(page) && to_page != PAGE_CACHE_SIZE) {
>                         /*
>                          * the above is not optimal for partial write to last
>                          * page of file when file size is not at boundary of
>                          * page
>                          */
> takes the lock
>                         lock_page(page);
> raced with readpage?
>                         if (!PageUptodate(page)) {
> readpage drops lock
>                                 result = readpage_unix_file(NULL, page);
>                                 BUG_ON(result != 0);
> -ENOMEM?
>                                 /* wait for read completion */
>                                 lock_page(page);
>                                 BUG_ON(!PageUptodate(page));
> -EIO?
>                                 unlock_page(page);
>                         } else
> still have the lock here
>                                 result = 0;
>                 }
> 
>                 BUG_ON(get_current_context()->trans->atom != NULL);
>                 fault_in_pages_readable(buf, to_page);
>                 BUG_ON(get_current_context()->trans->atom != NULL);
> 
> BOOM!!!
>                 lock_page(page);
>                 if (!PageUptodate(page) && to_page != PAGE_CACHE_SIZE) {

you are right, I will make a patch.
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