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kill-the-bkl/reiserfs: acquire the inode mutex safely

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While searching a pathname, an inode mutex can be acquired
in do_lookup() which calls reiserfs_lookup() which in turn
acquires the write lock.

On the other side reiserfs_fill_super() can acquire the write_lock
and then call reiserfs_lookup_privroot() which can acquire an
inode mutex (the root of the mount point).

So we theoretically risk an AB - BA lock inversion that could lead
to a deadlock.

As for other lock dependencies found since the bkl to mutex
conversion, the fix is to use reiserfs_mutex_lock_safe() which
drops the lock dependency to the write lock.

[ Impact: fix a possible deadlock with reiserfs ]

Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Frederic Weisbecker
2009-05-16 18:12:08 +02:00
parent 2ac626955e
commit c72e05756b
3 changed files with 37 additions and 36 deletions
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fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
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@ -975,7 +975,7 @@ int reiserfs_lookup_privroot(struct super_block *s)
int err = 0;
/* If we don't have the privroot located yet - go find it */
mutex_lock(&s->s_root->d_inode->i_mutex);
reiserfs_mutex_lock_safe(&s->s_root->d_inode->i_mutex, s);
dentry = lookup_one_len(PRIVROOT_NAME, s->s_root,
strlen(PRIVROOT_NAME));
if (!IS_ERR(dentry)) {
@ -1011,7 +1011,7 @@ int reiserfs_xattr_init(struct super_block *s, int mount_flags)
if (privroot->d_inode) {
s->s_xattr = reiserfs_xattr_handlers;
mutex_lock(&privroot->d_inode->i_mutex);
reiserfs_mutex_lock_safe(&privroot->d_inode->i_mutex, s);
if (!REISERFS_SB(s)->xattr_root) {
struct dentry *dentry;
dentry = lookup_one_len(XAROOT_NAME, privroot,