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    nilfs2: fix deadlock issue between chcp and thaw ioctls · 572d8b39
    Ryusuke Konishi authored
    
    
    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: default avatarRyusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
    Cc: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
    Tested-by: default avatarRyusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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