linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH, RFC] check for frozen filesystems in the mmap path

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Message-Id: <20090421140045.F125.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:11:45 +0900 (JST)
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] check for frozen filesystems in the mmap path



> Index: linux-2.6/mm/memory.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/memory.c
> +++ linux-2.6/mm/memory.c
> @@ -1944,6 +1944,7 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct *
>  		 * read-only shared pages can get COWed by
>  		 * get_user_pages(.write=1, .force=1).
>  		 */
> +		vfs_check_frozen(old_page->mapping->host->i_sb, SB_FREEZE_WRITE);
>  		if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->page_mkwrite) {
>  			struct vm_fault vmf;
>  			int tmp;

it seems strage.

1. it seems to have a race

	CPU0				CPU1
	----------------------------------------------------
	do_wp_page
	 vfs_check_frozen
					ioctl_fsfreeze
					  freeze_bdev
					    __fsync_super
        process touch mem

vfs_check_frozen only wait to unfreeze, but not prevent new
new freeze request starting.


2. this logic kill multi thread application.

this logic mean mmap_sem grabbing until unfreeze.
it mean othrer thread in the same process can't page-fault although
it don't touch frozen-sb.
it seems strange.




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