vfs: dcache: fix deadlock in tree traversal
IBM reported a deadlock in select_parent(). This was found to be caused
by taking rename_lock when already locked when restarting the tree
traversal.
There are two cases when the traversal needs to be restarted:
1) concurrent d_move(); this can only happen when not already locked,
since taking rename_lock protects against concurrent d_move().
2) racing with final d_put() on child just at the moment of ascending
to parent; rename_lock doesn't protect against this rare race, so it
can happen when already locked.
Because of case 2, we need to be able to handle restarting the traversal
when rename_lock is already held. This patch fixes all three callers of
try_to_ascend().
IBM reported that the deadlock is gone with this patch.
[ I rewrote the patch to be smaller and just do the "goto again" if the
lock was already held, but credit goes to Miklos for the real work.
- Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 0364af2..693f95b 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -1134,6 +1134,8 @@
return 1;
rename_retry:
+ if (locked)
+ goto again;
locked = 1;
write_seqlock(&rename_lock);
goto again;
@@ -1236,6 +1238,8 @@
rename_retry:
if (found)
return found;
+ if (locked)
+ goto again;
locked = 1;
write_seqlock(&rename_lock);
goto again;
@@ -3035,6 +3039,8 @@
return;
rename_retry:
+ if (locked)
+ goto again;
locked = 1;
write_seqlock(&rename_lock);
goto again;
