From: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxx> We hit an issue where a loop device on NFS was stuck in loop_get_status() doing vfs_getattr() after the NFS server died, which caused a pile-up of uninterruptible processes waiting on lo_ctl_mutex. There's no reason to hold this lock while we wait on the filesystem; let's drop it so that other processes can do their thing. We need to grab a reference on lo_backing_file while we use it, and we can get rid of the check on lo_device, which has been unnecessary since commit a34c0ae9ebd6 ("[PATCH] loop: remove the bio remapping capability") in the linux-history tree. Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxx> --- drivers/block/loop.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c index ed6fafdc5377..93a60bda7608 100644 --- a/drivers/block/loop.c +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c @@ -1167,21 +1167,17 @@ loop_set_status(struct loop_device *lo, const struct loop_info64 *info) static int loop_get_status(struct loop_device *lo, struct loop_info64 *info) { - struct file *file = lo->lo_backing_file; + struct file *file; struct kstat stat; - int error; + int ret; - if (lo->lo_state != Lo_bound) + if (lo->lo_state != Lo_bound) { + mutex_unlock(&lo->lo_ctl_mutex); return -ENXIO; - error = vfs_getattr(&file->f_path, &stat, - STATX_INO, AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT); - if (error) - return error; + } + memset(info, 0, sizeof(*info)); info->lo_number = lo->lo_number; - info->lo_device = huge_encode_dev(stat.dev); - info->lo_inode = stat.ino; - info->lo_rdevice = huge_encode_dev(lo->lo_device ? stat.rdev : stat.dev); info->lo_offset = lo->lo_offset; info->lo_sizelimit = lo->lo_sizelimit; info->lo_flags = lo->lo_flags; @@ -1194,7 +1190,19 @@ loop_get_status(struct loop_device *lo, struct loop_info64 *info) memcpy(info->lo_encrypt_key, lo->lo_encrypt_key, lo->lo_encrypt_key_size); } - return 0; + + /* Drop lo_ctl_mutex while we call into the filesystem. */ + file = get_file(lo->lo_backing_file); + mutex_unlock(&lo->lo_ctl_mutex); + ret = vfs_getattr(&file->f_path, &stat, STATX_INO, + AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT); + if (!ret) { + info->lo_device = huge_encode_dev(stat.dev); + info->lo_inode = stat.ino; + info->lo_rdevice = huge_encode_dev(stat.rdev); + } + fput(file); + return ret; } static void @@ -1374,7 +1382,8 @@ static int lo_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, break; case LOOP_GET_STATUS: err = loop_get_status_old(lo, (struct loop_info __user *) arg); - break; + /* loop_get_status() unlocks lo_ctl_mutex */ + goto out_unlocked; case LOOP_SET_STATUS64: err = -EPERM; if ((mode & FMODE_WRITE) || capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) @@ -1383,7 +1392,8 @@ static int lo_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, break; case LOOP_GET_STATUS64: err = loop_get_status64(lo, (struct loop_info64 __user *) arg); - break; + /* loop_get_status() unlocks lo_ctl_mutex */ + goto out_unlocked; case LOOP_SET_CAPACITY: err = -EPERM; if ((mode & FMODE_WRITE) || capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) @@ -1544,7 +1554,7 @@ static int lo_compat_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, mutex_lock(&lo->lo_ctl_mutex); err = loop_get_status_compat( lo, (struct compat_loop_info __user *) arg); - mutex_unlock(&lo->lo_ctl_mutex); + /* loop_get_status() unlocks lo_ctl_mutex */ break; case LOOP_SET_CAPACITY: case LOOP_CLR_FD: -- 2.16.2