linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/4] kill-the-bkl/reiserfs: fix "reiserfs lock" / "inode mutex" lock inversion dependency

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Date:	Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:32:47 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>,
	Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@...il.com>,
	Bron Gondwana <brong@...tmail.fm>,
	Reiserfs <reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@...il.com>,
	"Trenton D. Adams" <trenton.d.adams@...il.com>,
	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>,
	Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@...ware.it>,
	Marcel Hilzinger <mhilzinger@...uxnewmedia.de>,
	Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@...il.com>,
	Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@...e.fr>
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] kill-the-bkl/reiserfs: fix "reiserfs lock" / "inode mutex" lock inversion dependency

reiserfs_xattr_init is called with the reiserfs write lock held, but
if the ".reiserfs_priv" entry is not created, we take the superblock
root directory inode mutex until .reiserfs_priv is created.

This creates a lock dependency inversion against other sites such as
reiserfs_file_release() which takes an inode mutex and the reiserfs
lock after.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@...il.com>
Cc: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@...e.fr>
---
 fs/reiserfs/xattr.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
index 59870a4..58aa8e7 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
@@ -1004,7 +1004,7 @@ int reiserfs_xattr_init(struct super_block *s, int mount_flags)
 		goto error;
 
 	if (!privroot->d_inode && !(mount_flags & MS_RDONLY)) {
-		mutex_lock(&s->s_root->d_inode->i_mutex);
+		reiserfs_mutex_lock_safe(&s->s_root->d_inode->i_mutex, s);
 		err = create_privroot(REISERFS_SB(s)->priv_root);
 		mutex_unlock(&s->s_root->d_inode->i_mutex);
 	}
-- 
1.6.2.3

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