nilfs2: fix deadlock issue between chcp and thaw ioctls
authorRyusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:42:07 +0000 (14:42 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:25:19 +0000 (17:25 -0700)
commit572d8b3945a31bee7c40d21556803e4807fd9141
tree8988dde859a68d88280047f5214427b49ebcf5de
parentfe0627e7b3d32a41c16fac6e0af091991545865e
nilfs2: fix deadlock issue between chcp and thaw ioctls

An fs-thaw ioctl causes deadlock with a chcp or mkcp -s command:

 chcp            D ffff88013870f3d0     0  1325   1324 0x00000004
 ...
 Call Trace:
   nilfs_transaction_begin+0x11c/0x1a0 [nilfs2]
   wake_up_bit+0x20/0x20
   copy_from_user+0x18/0x30 [nilfs2]
   nilfs_ioctl_change_cpmode+0x7d/0xcf [nilfs2]
   nilfs_ioctl+0x252/0x61a [nilfs2]
   do_page_fault+0x311/0x34c
   get_unmapped_area+0x132/0x14e
   do_vfs_ioctl+0x44b/0x490
   __set_task_blocked+0x5a/0x61
   vm_mmap_pgoff+0x76/0x87
   __set_current_blocked+0x30/0x4a
   sys_ioctl+0x4b/0x6f
   system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
 thaw            D ffff88013870d890     0  1352   1351 0x00000004
 ...
 Call Trace:
   rwsem_down_failed_common+0xdb/0x10f
   call_rwsem_down_write_failed+0x13/0x20
   down_write+0x25/0x27
   thaw_super+0x13/0x9e
   do_vfs_ioctl+0x1f5/0x490
   vm_mmap_pgoff+0x76/0x87
   sys_ioctl+0x4b/0x6f
   filp_close+0x64/0x6c
   system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

where the thaw ioctl deadlocked at thaw_super() when called while chcp was
waiting at nilfs_transaction_begin() called from
nilfs_ioctl_change_cpmode().  This deadlock is 100% reproducible.

This is because nilfs_ioctl_change_cpmode() first locks sb->s_umount in
read mode and then waits for unfreezing in nilfs_transaction_begin(),
whereas thaw_super() locks sb->s_umount in write mode.  The locking of
sb->s_umount here was intended to make snapshot mounts and the downgrade
of snapshots to checkpoints exclusive.

This fixes the deadlock issue by replacing the sb->s_umount usage in
nilfs_ioctl_change_cpmode() with a dedicated mutex which protects snapshot
mounts.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Tested-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c
fs/nilfs2/super.c
fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c
fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.h