3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 89f39af129382a40d7cd1f6914617282cfeee28e upstream. Change thaw_super() to check frozen != SB_FREEZE_COMPLETE rather than frozen == SB_UNFROZEN, otherwise it can race with freeze_super() which drops sb->s_umount after SB_FREEZE_WRITE to preserve the lock ordering. In this case thaw_super() will wrongly call s_op->unfreeze_fs() before it was actually frozen, and call sb_freeze_unlock() which leads to the unbalanced percpu_up_write(). Unfortunately lockdep can't detect this, so this triggers misc BUG_ON()'s in kernel/rcu/sync.c. Reported-and-tested-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/super.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/fs/super.c +++ b/fs/super.c @@ -1346,8 +1346,8 @@ int freeze_super(struct super_block *sb) } } /* - * This is just for debugging purposes so that fs can warn if it - * sees write activity when frozen is set to SB_FREEZE_COMPLETE. + * For debugging purposes so that fs can warn if it sees write activity + * when frozen is set to SB_FREEZE_COMPLETE, and for thaw_super(). */ sb->s_writers.frozen = SB_FREEZE_COMPLETE; up_write(&sb->s_umount); @@ -1366,7 +1366,7 @@ int thaw_super(struct super_block *sb) int error; down_write(&sb->s_umount); - if (sb->s_writers.frozen == SB_UNFROZEN) { + if (sb->s_writers.frozen != SB_FREEZE_COMPLETE) { up_write(&sb->s_umount); return -EINVAL; }