On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 06:05:51PM -0500, bfields wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 12:03:56AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 06:02:44PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 02:56:12PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > > > I just built current mainline plus the just-sent 266 -mm patches. > > > > > > > > The machine failed to power off when hit with `halt -pfn'. dmesg output: > > > > > > Christoph, can you live with this for now? > > > > nfsd part is well, livable. But the fs/sync.c is buggy as stackable > > filesystems can call vfs_fsync with a NULL pointer due to nfs calling it > > that way, so please drop that hunk. > > Whoops, OK, I didn't understand that. I'll drop that hunk, retest, then > submit--should take a few minutes. So this works for me--and I guess I may as well submit it in a pull request. But: it sounds like we still have a regression for ecryptfs? (Since on ecryptfs export nfsd will still try to get the mutex twice on create, unlink, etc.) Maybe we should just revert 4c728ef583b3d82266584da5cb068294c09df31e entirely for now? --b. commit 3fbc5c762bd9f9ff52fe7b5b09398a3cff0e8415 Author: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jan 6 13:37:03 2009 -0500 nfsd: fix double-locks of directory mutex A number of nfsd operations depend on the i_mutex to cover more code than just the fsync, so the approach of 4c728ef583b3d8 "add a vfs_fsync helper" doesn't work for nfsd. Revert the parts of those patches that touch nfsd. Note: we can't, however, remove the logic from vfs_fsync that was needed only for the special case of nfsd, because a vfs_fsync(NULL,...) call can still result indirectly from a stackable filesystem that was called by nfsd. Reported-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c index 44aa92a..6e50aaa 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c @@ -744,16 +744,44 @@ nfsd_close(struct file *filp) fput(filp); } +/* + * Sync a file + * As this calls fsync (not fdatasync) there is no need for a write_inode + * after it. + */ +static inline int nfsd_dosync(struct file *filp, struct dentry *dp, + const struct file_operations *fop) +{ + struct inode *inode = dp->d_inode; + int (*fsync) (struct file *, struct dentry *, int); + int err; + + err = filemap_fdatawrite(inode->i_mapping); + if (err == 0 && fop && (fsync = fop->fsync)) + err = fsync(filp, dp, 0); + if (err == 0) + err = filemap_fdatawait(inode->i_mapping); + + return err; +} + static int nfsd_sync(struct file *filp) { - return vfs_fsync(filp, filp->f_path.dentry, 0); + int err; + struct inode *inode = filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode; + dprintk("nfsd: sync file %s\n", filp->f_path.dentry->d_name.name); + mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); + err=nfsd_dosync(filp, filp->f_path.dentry, filp->f_op); + mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); + + return err; } int -nfsd_sync_dir(struct dentry *dentry) +nfsd_sync_dir(struct dentry *dp) { - return vfs_fsync(NULL, dentry, 0); + return nfsd_dosync(NULL, dp, dp->d_inode->i_fop); } /* -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html