On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 10:15:56AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 4:09 AM, Yigal Korman <yigal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > DAX handling of COW faults has wrong locking sequence:
> > dax_fault does i_mmap_lock_read
> > do_cow_fault does i_mmap_unlock_write
> >
> > Ross's commit[1] missed a fix[2] that Kirill added to Matthew's
> > commit[3].
> >
> > Original COW locking logic was introduced by Matthew here[4].
> >
> > This should be applied to v4.3 as well.
> >
> > [1] 0f90cc6609c7 mm, dax: fix DAX deadlocks
> > [2] 52a2b53ffde6 mm, dax: use i_mmap_unlock_write() in do_cow_fault()
> > [3] 843172978bb9 dax: fix race between simultaneous faults
> > [4] 2e4cdab0584f mm: allow page fault handlers to perform the COW
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yigal Korman <yigal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Cc: Stable Tree <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > mm/memory.c | 8 ++++----
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> > index c716913..e5071af 100644
> > --- a/mm/memory.c
> > +++ b/mm/memory.c
> > @@ -3015,9 +3015,9 @@ static int do_cow_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> > } else {
> > /*
> > * The fault handler has no page to lock, so it holds
> > - * i_mmap_lock for write to protect against truncate.
> > + * i_mmap_lock for read to protect against truncate.
> > */
> > - i_mmap_unlock_write(vma->vm_file->f_mapping);
> > + i_mmap_unlock_read(vma->vm_file->f_mapping);
> > }
> > goto uncharge_out;
> > }
> > @@ -3031,9 +3031,9 @@ static int do_cow_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> > } else {
> > /*
> > * The fault handler has no page to lock, so it holds
> > - * i_mmap_lock for write to protect against truncate.
> > + * i_mmap_lock for read to protect against truncate.
> > */
> > - i_mmap_unlock_write(vma->vm_file->f_mapping);
> > + i_mmap_unlock_read(vma->vm_file->f_mapping);
> > }
> > return ret;
> > uncharge_out:
>
> Looks good to me. I'll include this with some other DAX fixes I have pending.
Looks good to me as well. Thanks for catching this.
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