Change thaw_super() to check frozen != SB_FREEZE_COMPLETE rather than frozen == SB_UNFROZEN, otherwise it can race with freeze_super() which drops sb->s_umount after SB_FREEZE_WRITE to preserve the lock ordering. In this case thaw_super() will wrongly call s_op->unfreeze_fs() before it was actually frozen, and call sb_freeze_unlock() which leads to the unbalanced percpu_up_write(). Unfortunately lockdep can't detect this, so this triggers misc BUG_ON()'s in kernel/rcu/sync.c. Reported-and-tested-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- fs/super.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c index d78b984..2549896c 100644 --- a/fs/super.c +++ b/fs/super.c @@ -1324,8 +1324,8 @@ int freeze_super(struct super_block *sb) } } /* - * This is just for debugging purposes so that fs can warn if it - * sees write activity when frozen is set to SB_FREEZE_COMPLETE. + * For debugging purposes so that fs can warn if it sees write activity + * when frozen is set to SB_FREEZE_COMPLETE, and for thaw_super(). */ sb->s_writers.frozen = SB_FREEZE_COMPLETE; up_write(&sb->s_umount); @@ -1344,7 +1344,7 @@ int thaw_super(struct super_block *sb) int error; down_write(&sb->s_umount); - if (sb->s_writers.frozen == SB_UNFROZEN) { + if (sb->s_writers.frozen != SB_FREEZE_COMPLETE) { up_write(&sb->s_umount); return -EINVAL; } -- 2.5.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html