The patch titled Subject: ocfs2: fix a deadlock issue in ocfs2_dio_end_io_write() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ocfs2-fix-a-deadlock-issue-in-ocfs2_dio_end_io_write.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/ocfs2-fix-a-deadlock-issue-in-ocfs2_dio_end_io_write.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/ocfs2-fix-a-deadlock-issue-in-ocfs2_dio_end_io_write.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Ryan Ding <ryan.ding@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: ocfs2: fix a deadlock issue in ocfs2_dio_end_io_write() Should call ocfs2_free_alloc_context() to free meta_ac & data_ac before calling ocfs2_run_deallocs(). Because ocfs2_run_deallocs() will acquire the system inode's i_mutex hold by meta_ac. So try to release the lock before ocfs2_run_deallocs(). Fixes: af1310367f41 ("ocfs2: fix sparse file & data ordering issue in direct io.") Signed-off-by: Ryan Ding <ryan.ding@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@xxxxxxx> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ocfs2/aops.c | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/ocfs2/aops.c~ocfs2-fix-a-deadlock-issue-in-ocfs2_dio_end_io_write fs/ocfs2/aops.c --- a/fs/ocfs2/aops.c~ocfs2-fix-a-deadlock-issue-in-ocfs2_dio_end_io_write +++ a/fs/ocfs2/aops.c @@ -2341,6 +2341,10 @@ static void ocfs2_dio_end_io_write(struc ret = ocfs2_lock_allocators(inode, &et, 0, dwc->dw_zero_count*2, &data_ac, &meta_ac); + if (ret) { + mlog_errno(ret); + goto unlock; + } credits = ocfs2_calc_extend_credits(inode->i_sb, &di->id2.i_list); @@ -2380,14 +2384,14 @@ unlock: ocfs2_inode_unlock(inode, 1); brelse(di_bh); out: - ocfs2_run_deallocs(osb, &dealloc); - if (locked) - mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); - ocfs2_dio_free_write_ctx(inode, dwc); if (data_ac) ocfs2_free_alloc_context(data_ac); if (meta_ac) ocfs2_free_alloc_context(meta_ac); + ocfs2_run_deallocs(osb, &dealloc); + if (locked) + mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); + ocfs2_dio_free_write_ctx(inode, dwc); } /* _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ryan.ding@xxxxxxxxxx are ocfs2-add-ocfs2_write_type_t-type-to-identify-the-caller-of-write.patch ocfs2-use-c_new-to-indicate-newly-allocated-extents.patch ocfs2-test-target-page-before-change-it.patch ocfs2-do-not-change-i_size-in-write_end-for-direct-io.patch ocfs2-return-the-physical-address-in-ocfs2_write_cluster.patch ocfs2-record-unwritten-extents-when-populate-write-desc.patch ocfs2-fix-sparse-file-data-ordering-issue-in-direct-io.patch ocfs2-code-clean-up-for-direct-io.patch ocfs2-fix-ip_unaligned_aio-deadlock-with-dio-work-queue.patch ocfs2-take-ip_alloc_sem-in-ocfs2_dio_get_block-ocfs2_dio_end_io_write.patch ocfs2-fix-disk-file-size-and-memory-file-size-mismatch.patch ocfs2-fix-a-deadlock-issue-in-ocfs2_dio_end_io_write.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html