On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:39:51PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > As Al Viro pointed out path resolution during Q_QUOTAON calls to quotactl > is prone to deadlocks. We hold s_umount semaphore for reading during the > path resolution and resolution itself may need to acquire the semaphore > for writing when e. g. autofs mountpoint is passed. > > Solve the problem by performing the resolution before we get hold of the > superblock (and thus s_umount semaphore). The whole thing is complicated > by the fact that some filesystems (OCFS2) ignore the path argument. So to > distinguish between filesystem which want the path and which do not we > introduce new .quota_on_meta callback which does not get the path. OCFS2 > then uses this callback instead of old .quota_on. FYI I have a patch that switches ocfs to share the quota_on method with XFS which behaves the same, and consolidate the quota_off method for all filesystems. I think that's better than adding yet another method. I'll rebase it and send it out soon. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
