3.6.11.6 stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Jeff Mahoney [ Upstream commit a1457c0ce976bad1356b9b0437f2a5c3ab8a9cfc ] Reiserfs is currently able to be deadlocked by having two NFS clients where one has removed and recreated a file and another is accessing the file with an open file handle. If one client deletes and recreates a file with timing such that the recreated file obtains the same [dirid, objectid] pair as the original file while another client accesses the file via file handle, the create and lookup can race and deadlock if the lookup manages to create the in-memory inode first. The create thread, in insert_inode_locked4, will hold the write lock while waiting on the other inode to be unlocked. The lookup thread, anywhere in the iget path, will release and reacquire the write lock while it schedules. If it needs to reacquire the lock while the create thread has it, it will never be able to make forward progress because it needs to reacquire the lock before ultimately unlocking the inode. This patch drops the write lock across the insert_inode_locked4 call so that the ordering of inode_wait -> write lock is retained. Since this would have been the case before the BKL push-down, this is safe. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- fs/reiserfs/inode.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/inode.c b/fs/reiserfs/inode.c index 567c10c..582777f 100644 --- a/fs/reiserfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/reiserfs/inode.c @@ -1810,11 +1810,16 @@ int reiserfs_new_inode(struct reiserfs_transaction_handle *th, TYPE_STAT_DATA, SD_SIZE, MAX_US_INT); memcpy(INODE_PKEY(inode), &(ih.ih_key), KEY_SIZE); args.dirid = le32_to_cpu(ih.ih_key.k_dir_id); - if (insert_inode_locked4(inode, args.objectid, - reiserfs_find_actor, &args) < 0) { + + reiserfs_write_unlock(inode->i_sb); + err = insert_inode_locked4(inode, args.objectid, + reiserfs_find_actor, &args); + reiserfs_write_lock(inode->i_sb); + if (err) { err = -EINVAL; goto out_bad_inode; } + if (old_format_only(sb)) /* not a perfect generation count, as object ids can be reused, but ** this is as good as reiserfs can do right now. -- 1.7.10.4 -- 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/