Thanks to Jiri Kosina et al... See the reasons below. On 04/22/2013 03:32 PM, Jiri Kosina wrote: > From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> > Subject: [PATCH 3.0-stable] Revert "sysfs: fix race between readdir and lseek" > > This reverts commit 991f76f837bf22c5bb07261cfd86525a0a96650c. > > It depends on ef3d0fd27e90f ("vfs: do (nearly) lockless generic_file_llseek") > which is available only in 3.2+. > > When applied on 3.0 codebase, it causes A-A deadlock, whenever anyone does > seek() on sysfs, as both generic_file_llseek() and sysfs_dir_llseek() obtain > i_mutex. > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> > --- > fs/sysfs/dir.c | 13 +------------ > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) > > Index: linux-3.0-SLE11-SP3-sysfs-hang-debug/fs/sysfs/dir.c > =================================================================== > --- linux-3.0-SLE11-SP3-sysfs-hang-debug.orig/fs/sysfs/dir.c > +++ linux-3.0-SLE11-SP3-sysfs-hang-debug/fs/sysfs/dir.c > @@ -961,21 +961,9 @@ static int sysfs_readdir(struct file * f > return 0; > } > > -static loff_t sysfs_dir_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence) > -{ > - struct inode *inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode; > - loff_t ret; > - > - mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); > - ret = generic_file_llseek(file, offset, whence); > - mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); > - > - return ret; > -} > - > const struct file_operations sysfs_dir_operations = { > .read = generic_read_dir, > .readdir = sysfs_readdir, > .release = sysfs_dir_release, > - .llseek = sysfs_dir_llseek, > + .llseek = generic_file_llseek, > }; > -- js suse labs -- 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