This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled udf: Fix deadlock between writeback and udf_setsize() to the 4.4-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: udf-fix-deadlock-between-writeback-and-udf_setsize.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From f2e95355891153f66d4156bf3a142c6489cd78c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 16:20:25 +0200 Subject: udf: Fix deadlock between writeback and udf_setsize() From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> commit f2e95355891153f66d4156bf3a142c6489cd78c6 upstream. udf_setsize() called truncate_setsize() with i_data_sem held. Thus truncate_pagecache() called from truncate_setsize() could lock a page under i_data_sem which can deadlock as page lock ranks below i_data_sem - e. g. writeback can hold page lock and try to acquire i_data_sem to map a block. Fix the problem by moving truncate_setsize() calls from under i_data_sem. It is safe for us to change i_size without holding i_data_sem as all the places that depend on i_size being stable already hold inode_lock. Fixes: 7e49b6f2480cb9a9e7322a91592e56a5c85361f5 Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/udf/inode.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/udf/inode.c +++ b/fs/udf/inode.c @@ -1235,8 +1235,8 @@ int udf_setsize(struct inode *inode, lof return err; } set_size: - truncate_setsize(inode, newsize); up_write(&iinfo->i_data_sem); + truncate_setsize(inode, newsize); } else { if (iinfo->i_alloc_type == ICBTAG_FLAG_AD_IN_ICB) { down_write(&iinfo->i_data_sem); @@ -1253,9 +1253,9 @@ set_size: udf_get_block); if (err) return err; + truncate_setsize(inode, newsize); down_write(&iinfo->i_data_sem); udf_clear_extent_cache(inode); - truncate_setsize(inode, newsize); udf_truncate_extents(inode); up_write(&iinfo->i_data_sem); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jack@xxxxxxx are queue-4.4/f2fs-don-t-clear-sgid-when-inheriting-acls.patch queue-4.4/udf-fix-deadlock-between-writeback-and-udf_setsize.patch