On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 04:17:17PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote: > On 04/08/2013 03:48 PM, Al Viro wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 10:23:27PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 03:52:08PM -0500, Nathan Zimmer wrote: > >> > >>> Further digging seems to indicate 9984d7394618df9, the one right > >>> after the commit I previously identified. > >>> Not sure what I did wrong with my bisect to put it off by one. > >> > >> Ugh... Can't reproduce here ;-/ Could you give more details on your > >> setup? > > > > Anyway, I've just pushed a splitup of that commit (carved in 3 pieces) > > into vfs.git#pipe-splitup; could you check which part triggers that > > hang? Should propagate in a few... > > It looks like "pipe: unify ->release() and ->open()" introduces the > problem. Note that I had to add a prototype for fifo_open() before the > structs that reference it for that commit to compile. Very interesting... Just in case, could you try this on top of that branch and see if it triggers? diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c index 8ce279b..b6cd51b 100644 --- a/fs/pipe.c +++ b/fs/pipe.c @@ -1022,6 +1022,11 @@ static int fifo_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) /* We can only do regular read/write on fifos */ filp->f_mode &= (FMODE_READ | FMODE_WRITE); + if (inode->i_sb->s_magic == PIPEFS_MAGIC) { + WARN_ON(filp->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK); + filp->f_flags &= ~O_NONBLOCK; + } + switch (filp->f_mode) { case FMODE_READ: /* -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html