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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2007-07-15 23:41:08 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-16 09:05:47 -0700
commit030703e49d4966bd348660e0fdc2699507efb82b (patch)
tree7ff200c2834960fc70b2683007b7d13cdb7f761e /fs/ext3/super.c
parent8b3b295502444340dd0701855ac422fbf32e161d (diff)
downloadlinux-030703e49d4966bd348660e0fdc2699507efb82b.tar.gz
ext3: fix deadlock in ext3_remount() and orphan list handling
ext3_orphan_add() and ext3_orphan_del() functions lock sb->s_lock with a
transaction started with ext3_mark_recovery_complete() waits for a transaction
holding sb->s_lock, thus leading to a possible deadlock.  At the moment we
call ext3_mark_recovery_complete() from ext3_remount() we have done all the
work needed for remounting and thus we are safe to drop sb->s_lock before we
wait for transactions to commit.  Note that at this moment we are still
guarded by s_umount lock against other remounts/umounts.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext3/super.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext3/super.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext3/super.c b/fs/ext3/super.c
index 6ee4a95f4934..69a59d4580e9 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/super.c
@@ -2147,12 +2147,14 @@ static void ext3_mark_recovery_complete(struct super_block * sb,
 
 	journal_lock_updates(journal);
 	journal_flush(journal);
+	lock_super(sb);
 	if (EXT3_HAS_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER) &&
 	    sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY) {
 		EXT3_CLEAR_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER);
 		sb->s_dirt = 0;
 		ext3_commit_super(sb, es, 1);
 	}
+	unlock_super(sb);
 	journal_unlock_updates(journal);
 }
 
@@ -2341,7 +2343,13 @@ static int ext3_remount (struct super_block * sb, int * flags, char * data)
 			    (sbi->s_mount_state & EXT3_VALID_FS))
 				es->s_state = cpu_to_le16(sbi->s_mount_state);
 
+			/*
+			 * We have to unlock super so that we can wait for
+			 * transactions.
+			 */
+			unlock_super(sb);
 			ext3_mark_recovery_complete(sb, es);
+			lock_super(sb);
 		} else {
 			__le32 ret;
 			if ((ret = EXT3_HAS_RO_COMPAT_FEATURE(sb,