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author | Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> | 2009-04-06 17:41:00 +0200 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-04-07 08:34:46 -0700 |
commit | 7bfac9ecf0585962fe13584f5cf526d8c8e76f17 (patch) | |
tree | 7e7c98311bb0d4c26e514b337216bbc8ade8d078 /fs/ocfs2/file.c | |
parent | 612392307cb09e49051225092cbbd7049bd8db93 (diff) | |
download | lwn-7bfac9ecf0585962fe13584f5cf526d8c8e76f17.tar.gz lwn-7bfac9ecf0585962fe13584f5cf526d8c8e76f17.zip |
splice: fix deadlock in splicing to file
There's a possible deadlock in generic_file_splice_write(),
splice_from_pipe() and ocfs2_file_splice_write():
- task A calls generic_file_splice_write()
- this calls inode_double_lock(), which locks i_mutex on both
pipe->inode and target inode
- ordering depends on inode pointers, can happen that pipe->inode is
locked first
- __splice_from_pipe() needs more data, calls pipe_wait()
- this releases lock on pipe->inode, goes to interruptible sleep
- task B calls generic_file_splice_write(), similarly to the first
- this locks pipe->inode, then tries to lock inode, but that is
already held by task A
- task A is interrupted, it tries to lock pipe->inode, but fails, as
it is already held by task B
- ABBA deadlock
Fix this by explicitly ordering locks: the outer lock must be on
target inode and the inner lock (which is later unlocked and relocked)
must be on pipe->inode. This is OK, pipe inodes and target inodes
form two nonoverlapping sets, generic_file_splice_write() and friends
are not called with a target which is a pipe.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ocfs2/file.c')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/ocfs2/file.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/file.c b/fs/ocfs2/file.c index a5887df2cd8a..8672b9536039 100644 --- a/fs/ocfs2/file.c +++ b/fs/ocfs2/file.c @@ -1926,7 +1926,7 @@ static ssize_t ocfs2_file_splice_write(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, out->f_path.dentry->d_name.len, out->f_path.dentry->d_name.name); - inode_double_lock(inode, pipe->inode); + mutex_lock_nested(&inode->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_PARENT); ret = ocfs2_rw_lock(inode, 1); if (ret < 0) { @@ -1941,12 +1941,16 @@ static ssize_t ocfs2_file_splice_write(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, goto out_unlock; } + if (pipe->inode) + mutex_lock_nested(&pipe->inode->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_CHILD); ret = generic_file_splice_write_nolock(pipe, out, ppos, len, flags); + if (pipe->inode) + mutex_unlock(&pipe->inode->i_mutex); out_unlock: ocfs2_rw_unlock(inode, 1); out: - inode_double_unlock(inode, pipe->inode); + mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); mlog_exit(ret); return ret; |