This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Revert "jffs2: Fix lock acquisition order bug in jffs2_write_begin"
to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
revert-jffs2-fix-lock-acquisition-order-bug-in-jffs2_write_begin.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 157078f64b8a9cd7011b6b900b2f2498df850748 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Betker <thomas.betker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 22:18:15 +0100
Subject: Revert "jffs2: Fix lock acquisition order bug in jffs2_write_begin"
From: Thomas Betker <thomas.betker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 157078f64b8a9cd7011b6b900b2f2498df850748 upstream.
This reverts commit 5ffd3412ae55
("jffs2: Fix lock acquisition order bug in jffs2_write_begin").
The commit modified jffs2_write_begin() to remove a deadlock with
jffs2_garbage_collect_live(), but this introduced new deadlocks found
by multiple users. page_lock() actually has to be called before
mutex_lock(&c->alloc_sem) or mutex_lock(&f->sem) because
jffs2_write_end() and jffs2_readpage() are called with the page locked,
and they acquire c->alloc_sem and f->sem, resp.
In other words, the lock order in jffs2_write_begin() was correct, and
it is the jffs2_garbage_collect_live() path that has to be changed.
Revert the commit to get rid of the new deadlocks, and to clear the way
for a better fix of the original deadlock.
Reported-by: Deng Chao <deng.chao1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Ming Liu <liu.ming50@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: wangzaiwei <wangzaiwei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Betker <thomas.betker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/jffs2/file.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++---------------------
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/jffs2/file.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/file.c
@@ -138,39 +138,33 @@ static int jffs2_write_begin(struct file
struct page *pg;
struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
struct jffs2_inode_info *f = JFFS2_INODE_INFO(inode);
- struct jffs2_sb_info *c = JFFS2_SB_INFO(inode->i_sb);
- struct jffs2_raw_inode ri;
- uint32_t alloc_len = 0;
pgoff_t index = pos >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
uint32_t pageofs = index << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
int ret = 0;
- jffs2_dbg(1, "%s()\n", __func__);
-
- if (pageofs > inode->i_size) {
- ret = jffs2_reserve_space(c, sizeof(ri), &alloc_len,
- ALLOC_NORMAL, JFFS2_SUMMARY_INODE_SIZE);
- if (ret)
- return ret;
- }
-
- mutex_lock(&f->sem);
pg = grab_cache_page_write_begin(mapping, index, flags);
- if (!pg) {
- if (alloc_len)
- jffs2_complete_reservation(c);
- mutex_unlock(&f->sem);
+ if (!pg)
return -ENOMEM;
- }
*pagep = pg;
- if (alloc_len) {
+ jffs2_dbg(1, "%s()\n", __func__);
+
+ if (pageofs > inode->i_size) {
/* Make new hole frag from old EOF to new page */
+ struct jffs2_sb_info *c = JFFS2_SB_INFO(inode->i_sb);
+ struct jffs2_raw_inode ri;
struct jffs2_full_dnode *fn;
+ uint32_t alloc_len;
jffs2_dbg(1, "Writing new hole frag 0x%x-0x%x between current EOF and new page\n",
(unsigned int)inode->i_size, pageofs);
+ ret = jffs2_reserve_space(c, sizeof(ri), &alloc_len,
+ ALLOC_NORMAL, JFFS2_SUMMARY_INODE_SIZE);
+ if (ret)
+ goto out_page;
+
+ mutex_lock(&f->sem);
memset(&ri, 0, sizeof(ri));
ri.magic = cpu_to_je16(JFFS2_MAGIC_BITMASK);
@@ -197,6 +191,7 @@ static int jffs2_write_begin(struct file
if (IS_ERR(fn)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(fn);
jffs2_complete_reservation(c);
+ mutex_unlock(&f->sem);
goto out_page;
}
ret = jffs2_add_full_dnode_to_inode(c, f, fn);
@@ -211,10 +206,12 @@ static int jffs2_write_begin(struct file
jffs2_mark_node_obsolete(c, fn->raw);
jffs2_free_full_dnode(fn);
jffs2_complete_reservation(c);
+ mutex_unlock(&f->sem);
goto out_page;
}
jffs2_complete_reservation(c);
inode->i_size = pageofs;
+ mutex_unlock(&f->sem);
}
/*
@@ -223,18 +220,18 @@ static int jffs2_write_begin(struct file
* case of a short-copy.
*/
if (!PageUptodate(pg)) {
+ mutex_lock(&f->sem);
ret = jffs2_do_readpage_nolock(inode, pg);
+ mutex_unlock(&f->sem);
if (ret)
goto out_page;
}
- mutex_unlock(&f->sem);
jffs2_dbg(1, "end write_begin(). pg->flags %lx\n", pg->flags);
return ret;
out_page:
unlock_page(pg);
page_cache_release(pg);
- mutex_unlock(&f->sem);
return ret;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from thomas.betker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.10/revert-jffs2-fix-lock-acquisition-order-bug-in-jffs2_write_begin.patch
queue-3.10/jffs2-fix-page-lock-f-sem-deadlock.patch
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