In xfs we first take ilock and start transaction afterwards. We should obey this order in all places because otherwise we can create the following deadlock with filesystem freezing: One process holds ilock and blocks on s_frozen == SB_FREEZE_TRANS in xfs_trans_alloc(), another process has a transaction started (thus blocking freezing) and blocks on ilock. So we have to take ilock earlier in xfs_setattr_size(). CC: Ben Myers <bpm@xxxxxxx> CC: Alex Elder <elder@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c index 23ce927..3579bc8 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c @@ -850,6 +850,9 @@ xfs_setattr_size( if (error) goto out_unlock; + xfs_ilock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL); + lock_flags |= XFS_ILOCK_EXCL; + tp = xfs_trans_alloc(mp, XFS_TRANS_SETATTR_SIZE); error = xfs_trans_reserve(tp, 0, XFS_ITRUNCATE_LOG_RES(mp), 0, XFS_TRANS_PERM_LOG_RES, @@ -860,9 +863,6 @@ xfs_setattr_size( truncate_setsize(inode, iattr->ia_size); commit_flags = XFS_TRANS_RELEASE_LOG_RES; - lock_flags |= XFS_ILOCK_EXCL; - - xfs_ilock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL); xfs_trans_ijoin(tp, ip, 0); -- 1.7.1 -- 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