From: Ryusuke Konishi Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:21:00 +0000 (+0900) Subject: nilfs2: fix possible circular locking for get information ioctls X-Git-Tag: linux-omap-v2.6.30-rc6~19^2~2 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=47eb6b9c8fa963c9f49967ad1d9d7ec947d15b68;p=pandora-kernel.git nilfs2: fix possible circular locking for get information ioctls This is one of two patches which are to correct possible circular locking between mm->mmap_sem and nilfs->ns_segctor_sem. The problem was detected by lockdep check as follows: ======================================================= [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] 2.6.30-rc3-nilfs-00002-g3552613 #6 ------------------------------------------------------- mmap/5418 is trying to acquire lock: (&nilfs->ns_segctor_sem){++++.+}, at: [] nilfs_transaction_begin+0xb6/0x10c [nilfs2] but task is already holding lock: (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}, at: [] do_page_fault+0x1d8/0x30a which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #1 (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}: [] __lock_acquire+0x1066/0x13b0 [] lock_acquire+0xba/0xdd [] might_fault+0x68/0x88 [] copy_to_user+0x2c/0xfc [] nilfs_ioctl_wrap_copy+0x103/0x160 [nilfs2] [] nilfs_ioctl+0x30a/0x3b0 [nilfs2] [] vfs_ioctl+0x22/0x69 [] do_vfs_ioctl+0x460/0x499 [] sys_ioctl+0x40/0x5a [] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x38 [] 0xffffffff -> #0 (&nilfs->ns_segctor_sem){++++.+}: [] __lock_acquire+0xdcc/0x13b0 [] lock_acquire+0xba/0xdd [] down_read+0x2a/0x3e [] nilfs_transaction_begin+0xb6/0x10c [nilfs2] [] nilfs_page_mkwrite+0xe7/0x154 [nilfs2] [] __do_fault+0x165/0x376 [] handle_mm_fault+0x287/0x5d1 [] do_page_fault+0x2fb/0x30a [] error_code+0x72/0x78 [] 0xffffffff other info that might help us debug this: 1 lock held by mmap/5418: #0: (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}, at: [] do_page_fault+0x1d8/0x30a stack backtrace: Pid: 5418, comm: mmap Not tainted 2.6.30-rc3-nilfs-00002-g3552613 #6 Call Trace: [] ? printk+0xf/0x12 [] print_circular_bug_tail+0xaa/0xb5 [] __lock_acquire+0xdcc/0x13b0 [] ? nilfs_sufile_get_stat+0x1e/0x105 [nilfs2] [] ? up_read+0x16/0x2c [] ? nilfs_sufile_get_stat+0xfa/0x105 [nilfs2] [] lock_acquire+0xba/0xdd [] ? nilfs_transaction_begin+0xb6/0x10c [nilfs2] [] down_read+0x2a/0x3e [] ? nilfs_transaction_begin+0xb6/0x10c [nilfs2] [] nilfs_transaction_begin+0xb6/0x10c [nilfs2] [] nilfs_page_mkwrite+0xe7/0x154 [nilfs2] [] __do_fault+0x165/0x376 [] handle_mm_fault+0x287/0x5d1 [] ? do_page_fault+0x1d8/0x30a [] ? down_read_trylock+0x39/0x43 [] do_page_fault+0x2fb/0x30a [] ? do_page_fault+0x0/0x30a [] error_code+0x72/0x78 [] ? do_page_fault+0x0/0x30a This makes the lock granularity of nilfs->ns_segctor_sem finer than that of the mmap semaphore for ioctl commands except nilfs_clean_segments(). The successive patch ("nilfs2: fix lock order reversal in nilfs_clean_segments ioctl") is required to fully resolve the problem. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi --- Reading git-diff-tree failed