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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2008-07-11 19:27:31 -0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2008-07-11 19:27:31 -0400
commit9ddfc3dc75b5cc55ff3cfa586e962d252f1db9d3 (patch)
tree4932f75d2f303561b0038fb5ea8985345b3ccd6b /fs/ext4/extents.c
parentcf108bca465dde0c015f32dd453b99457d31c7c7 (diff)
downloadlinux-9ddfc3dc75b5cc55ff3cfa586e962d252f1db9d3.tar.gz
ext4: Fix lock inversion in ext4_ext_truncate()
We cannot call ext4_orphan_add() from under i_data_sem because that
causes a lock ordering violation between i_data_sem and and the
superblock lock.

Updated with Aneesh's locking order fix

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> 
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/extents.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/extents.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index b722bce7d662..7844bbb2bac0 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -2768,6 +2768,9 @@ void ext4_ext_truncate(struct inode *inode)
 	if (inode->i_size & (sb->s_blocksize - 1))
 		ext4_block_truncate_page(handle, mapping, inode->i_size);
 
+	if (ext4_orphan_add(handle, inode))
+		goto out_stop;
+
 	down_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem);
 	ext4_ext_invalidate_cache(inode);
 
@@ -2778,8 +2781,6 @@ void ext4_ext_truncate(struct inode *inode)
 	 * Probably we need not scan at all,
 	 * because page truncation is enough.
 	 */
-	if (ext4_orphan_add(handle, inode))
-		goto out_stop;
 
 	/* we have to know where to truncate from in crash case */
 	EXT4_I(inode)->i_disksize = inode->i_size;
@@ -2796,6 +2797,7 @@ void ext4_ext_truncate(struct inode *inode)
 		handle->h_sync = 1;
 
 out_stop:
+	up_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem);
 	/*
 	 * If this was a simple ftruncate() and the file will remain alive,
 	 * then we need to clear up the orphan record which we created above.
@@ -2806,7 +2808,6 @@ out_stop:
 	if (inode->i_nlink)
 		ext4_orphan_del(handle, inode);
 
-	up_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem);
 	inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = ext4_current_time(inode);
 	ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
 	ext4_journal_stop(handle);