On Thu 01-12-16 15:24:47, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 10:46:35AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> > Currently ->iomap_begin() handler is called with entry lock held. If the
> > filesystem held any locks between ->iomap_begin() and ->iomap_end()
> > (such as ext4 which will want to hold transaction open), this would cause
> > lock inversion with the iomap_apply() from standard IO path which first
> > calls ->iomap_begin() and only then calls ->actor() callback which grabs
> > entry locks for DAX.
>
> I don't see the dax_iomap_actor() grabbing any entry locks for DAX? Is this
> an issue currently, or are you just trying to make the code consistent so we
> don't run into issues in the future?
So dax_iomap_actor() copies data from / to user provided buffer. That can
fault and if the buffer happens to be mmaped file on DAX filesystem, the
fault will end up grabbing entry locks. Sample evil test:
fd = open("some_file", O_RDWR);
buf = mmap(NULL, 65536, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
write(fd, buf, 4096);
Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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