3.16.49-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Rabin Vincent <rabinv@xxxxxxxx> commit 966681c9f029afd5decee069b7658bb58ad0a863 upstream. When a CIFS filesystem is mounted with the forcemand option and the following command is run on it, lockdep warns about a circular locking dependency between CifsInodeInfo::lock_sem and the inode lock. while echo foo > hello; do :; done & while touch -c hello; do :; done cifs_writev() takes the locks in the wrong order, but note that we can't only flip the order around because it releases the inode lock before the call to generic_write_sync() while it holds the lock_sem across that call. But, AFAICS, there is no need to hold the CifsInodeInfo::lock_sem across the generic_write_sync() call either, so we can release both the locks before generic_write_sync(), and change the order. ====================================================== WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected 4.12.0-rc7+ #9 Not tainted ------------------------------------------------------ touch/487 is trying to acquire lock: (&cifsi->lock_sem){++++..}, at: cifsFileInfo_put+0x88f/0x16a0 but task is already holding lock: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#11){+.+.+.}, at: utimes_common+0x3ad/0x870 which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #1 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#11){+.+.+.}: __lock_acquire+0x1f74/0x38f0 lock_acquire+0x1cc/0x600 down_write+0x74/0x110 cifs_strict_writev+0x3cb/0x8c0 __vfs_write+0x4c1/0x930 vfs_write+0x14c/0x2d0 SyS_write+0xf7/0x240 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xbe -> #0 (&cifsi->lock_sem){++++..}: check_prevs_add+0xfa0/0x1d10 __lock_acquire+0x1f74/0x38f0 lock_acquire+0x1cc/0x600 down_write+0x74/0x110 cifsFileInfo_put+0x88f/0x16a0 cifs_setattr+0x992/0x1680 notify_change+0x61a/0xa80 utimes_common+0x3d4/0x870 do_utimes+0x1c1/0x220 SyS_utimensat+0x84/0x1a0 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xbe other info that might help us debug this: Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#11); lock(&cifsi->lock_sem); lock(&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#11); lock(&cifsi->lock_sem); *** DEADLOCK *** 2 locks held by touch/487: #0: (sb_writers#10){.+.+.+}, at: mnt_want_write+0x41/0xb0 #1: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#11){+.+.+.}, at: utimes_common+0x3ad/0x870 stack backtrace: CPU: 0 PID: 487 Comm: touch Not tainted 4.12.0-rc7+ #9 Call Trace: dump_stack+0xdb/0x185 print_circular_bug+0x45b/0x790 __lock_acquire+0x1f74/0x38f0 lock_acquire+0x1cc/0x600 down_write+0x74/0x110 cifsFileInfo_put+0x88f/0x16a0 cifs_setattr+0x992/0x1680 notify_change+0x61a/0xa80 utimes_common+0x3d4/0x870 do_utimes+0x1c1/0x220 SyS_utimensat+0x84/0x1a0 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xbe Fixes: 19dfc1f5f2ef03a52 ("cifs: fix the race in cifs_writev()") Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabinv@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [bwh: Backported to 3.16: - Keep using mutex_{,un}lock() - Update both branches of if (!cifs_find_lock_conflict(...))] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/fs/cifs/file.c +++ b/fs/cifs/file.c @@ -2593,18 +2593,19 @@ cifs_writev(struct kiocb *iocb, struct i ssize_t rc = -EACCES; loff_t lock_pos = iocb->ki_pos; + mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); /* * We need to hold the sem to be sure nobody modifies lock list * with a brlock that prevents writing. */ down_read(&cinode->lock_sem); - mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); if (file->f_flags & O_APPEND) lock_pos = i_size_read(inode); if (!cifs_find_lock_conflict(cfile, lock_pos, iov_iter_count(from), server->vals->exclusive_lock_type, NULL, CIFS_WRITE_OP)) { rc = __generic_file_write_iter(iocb, from); + up_read(&cinode->lock_sem); mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); if (rc > 0) { @@ -2615,9 +2616,9 @@ cifs_writev(struct kiocb *iocb, struct i rc = err; } } else { + up_read(&cinode->lock_sem); mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); } - up_read(&cinode->lock_sem); return rc; }