linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH] nfs: avoid swap-over-NFS deadlock

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Date:	Wed, 22 Jul 2015 10:10:43 +0200
From:	"Jerome Marchand" <jmarchan@...hat.com>
To:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...marydata.com>,
	Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@...app.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH] nfs: avoid swap-over-NFS deadlock

Lockdep warns about a inconsistent {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} ->
{IN-RECLAIM_FS-W} usage. The culpritt is the inode->i_mutex taken in
nfs_file_direct_write(). This code was introduced by commit a9ab5e840669
("nfs: page cache invalidation for dio").
This naive test patch avoid to take the mutex on a swapfile and makes
lockdep happy again. However I don't know much about NFS code and I
assume it's probably not the proper solution. Any thought?

Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
---
 fs/nfs/direct.c | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/direct.c b/fs/nfs/direct.c
index 38678d9..42324d4 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/direct.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/direct.c
@@ -974,7 +974,9 @@ ssize_t nfs_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter)
 	pos = iocb->ki_pos;
 	end = (pos + iov_iter_count(iter) - 1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
 
-	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
+	/* Don't take the mutex while in reclaim_FS */
+	if (!IS_SWAPFILE(inode))
+		mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
 
 	result = nfs_sync_mapping(mapping);
 	if (result)
@@ -1014,7 +1016,8 @@ ssize_t nfs_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter)
 					      pos >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT, end);
 	}
 
-	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
+	if (!IS_SWAPFILE(inode))
+		mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
 
 	if (!result) {
 		result = nfs_direct_wait(dreq);
@@ -1035,7 +1038,8 @@ ssize_t nfs_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter)
 out_release:
 	nfs_direct_req_release(dreq);
 out_unlock:
-	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
+	if (!IS_SWAPFILE(inode))
+		mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
 	return result;
 }
 
-- 
1.9.3

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