If an administrator tries to swapon a file backed by NFS, the inode mutex is
taken (as it is for any swapfile) but later identified to be a bad swapfile
due to the lack of bmap and tries to cleanup. During cleanup, an attempt is
made to close the file but with inode->i_mutex still held. Closing an NFS
file syncs it which tries to acquire the inode mutex leading to deadlock. If
lockdep is enabled the following appears on the console;
[ 120.968832] =============================================
[ 120.972757] [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
[ 120.972757] 2.6.38-rc8-autobuild #1
[ 120.972757] ---------------------------------------------
[ 120.972757] swapon/2192 is trying to acquire lock:
[ 120.972757] (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#13){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81130652>] vfs_fsync_range+0x47/0x7c
[ 120.972757]
[ 120.972757] but task is already holding lock:
[ 120.972757] (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#13){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff810f9405>] sys_swapon+0x28d/0xae7
[ 120.972757]
[ 120.972757] other info that might help us debug this:
[ 120.972757] 1 lock held by swapon/2192:
[ 120.972757] #0: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#13){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff810f9405>] sys_swapon+0x28d/0xae7
[ 120.972757]
[ 120.972757] stack backtrace:
[ 120.972757] Pid: 2192, comm: swapon Not tainted 2.6.38-rc8-autobuild #1
[ 120.972757] Call Trace:
[ 120.972757] [<ffffffff81075ca8>] ? __lock_acquire+0x2eb/0x1623
[ 120.972757] [<ffffffff810cd5ad>] ? find_get_pages_tag+0x14a/0x174
[ 120.972757] [<ffffffff810d6d01>] ? pagevec_lookup_tag+0x25/0x2e
[ 120.972757] [<ffffffff81130652>] ? vfs_fsync_range+0x47/0x7c
[ 120.972757] [<ffffffff810770b3>] ? lock_acquire+0xd3/0x100
[ 120.972757] [<ffffffff81130652>] ? vfs_fsync_range+0x47/0x7c
[ 120.972757] [<ffffffffa03df8ab>] ? nfs_flush_one+0x0/0xdf [nfs]
[ 120.972757] [<ffffffff81309cdf>] ? mutex_lock_nested+0x40/0x2b1
[ 120.972757] [<ffffffff81130652>] ? vfs_fsync_range+0x47/0x7c
[ 120.972757] [<ffffffff81130652>] ? vfs_fsync_range+0x47/0x7c
[ 120.972757] [<ffffffff811306e6>] ? vfs_fsync+0x1c/0x1e
[ 120.972757] [<ffffffffa03d0c87>] ? nfs_file_flush+0x64/0x69 [nfs]
[ 120.972757] [<ffffffff811097c9>] ? filp_close+0x43/0x72
[ 120.972757] [<ffffffff810f9bb1>] ? sys_swapon+0xa39/0xae7
[ 120.972757] [<ffffffff81002b7a>] ? sysret_check+0x2e/0x69
[ 120.972757] [<ffffffff81002b42>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
This patch releases the mutex if its held before calling filep_close()
so swapon fails as expected without deadlock when the swapfile is backed
by NFS. If accepted for 2.6.39, it should also be considered a -stable
candidate for 2.6.38 and 2.6.37.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
---
mm/swapfile.c | 7 ++++++-
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 0341c57..6d6d28c 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -2149,8 +2149,13 @@ bad_swap_2:
p->flags = 0;
spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
vfree(swap_map);
- if (swap_file)
+ if (swap_file) {
+ if (did_down) {
+ mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
+ did_down = 0;
+ }
filp_close(swap_file, NULL);
+ }
out:
if (page && !IS_ERR(page)) {
kunmap(page);
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