The patch titled Subject: ocfs2: mknod: fix recursive locking hung has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ocfs2-mknod-fix-recursive-locking-hung.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/ocfs2-mknod-fix-recursive-locking-hung.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/ocfs2-mknod-fix-recursive-locking-hung.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: ocfs2: mknod: fix recursive locking hung Here another recursive lock caught and it caused a cluster hung. #0 [ffff88008e3935a8] __schedule at ffffffff816e4722 #1 [ffff88008e393600] schedule at ffffffff816e4dee #2 [ffff88008e393620] schedule_timeout at ffffffff816e7cd5 #3 [ffff88008e3936c0] wait_for_completion at ffffffff816e631f #4 [ffff88008e393740] __ocfs2_cluster_lock at ffffffffa05a9111 [ocfs2] #5 [ffff88008e393890] ocfs2_inode_lock_full_nested at ffffffffa05aec14 [ocfs2] #6 [ffff88008e393910] ocfs2_inode_lock_tracker at ffffffffa05af02f [ocfs2] #7 [ffff88008e393970] ocfs2_iop_get_acl at ffffffffa0620c92 [ocfs2] #8 [ffff88008e3939d0] get_acl at ffffffff8126ae79 #9 [ffff88008e3939f0] posix_acl_create at ffffffff8126b27a #10 [ffff88008e393a20] ocfs2_mknod at ffffffffa05cedcc [ocfs2] #11 [ffff88008e393b60] ocfs2_create at ffffffffa05cfb13 [ocfs2] #12 [ffff88008e393bd0] vfs_create at ffffffff81217338 #13 [ffff88008e393c10] lookup_open at ffffffff81217a85 #14 [ffff88008e393ca0] do_last at ffffffff8121ac6d #15 [ffff88008e393d30] path_openat at ffffffff8121b112 #16 [ffff88008e393df0] do_filp_open at ffffffff8121b53a #17 [ffff88008e393ed0] do_sys_open at ffffffff81209a5a #18 [ffff88008e393f40] sys_open at ffffffff81209bae #19 [ffff88008e393f50] system_call_fastpath at ffffffff816e902e inode lock is got by ocfs2_mknod() before call into posix_acl_create(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508300302-5155-1-git-send-email-junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joseph Qi <jiangqi903@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Gang He <ghe@xxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ocfs2/namei.c | 14 ++++++++------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/ocfs2/namei.c~ocfs2-mknod-fix-recursive-locking-hung fs/ocfs2/namei.c --- a/fs/ocfs2/namei.c~ocfs2-mknod-fix-recursive-locking-hung +++ a/fs/ocfs2/namei.c @@ -260,6 +260,8 @@ static int ocfs2_mknod(struct inode *dir sigset_t oldset; int did_block_signals = 0; struct ocfs2_dentry_lock *dl = NULL; + int locked; + struct ocfs2_lock_holder oh; trace_ocfs2_mknod(dir, dentry, dentry->d_name.len, dentry->d_name.name, (unsigned long long)OCFS2_I(dir)->ip_blkno, @@ -274,11 +276,11 @@ static int ocfs2_mknod(struct inode *dir /* get our super block */ osb = OCFS2_SB(dir->i_sb); - status = ocfs2_inode_lock(dir, &parent_fe_bh, 1); - if (status < 0) { - if (status != -ENOENT) - mlog_errno(status); - return status; + locked = ocfs2_inode_lock_tracker(dir, &parent_fe_bh, 1, &oh); + if (locked < 0) { + if (locked != -ENOENT) + mlog_errno(locked); + return locked; } if (S_ISDIR(mode) && (dir->i_nlink >= ocfs2_link_max(osb))) { @@ -462,7 +464,7 @@ leave: if (handle) ocfs2_commit_trans(osb, handle); - ocfs2_inode_unlock(dir, 1); + ocfs2_inode_unlock_tracker(dir, 1, &oh, locked); if (did_block_signals) ocfs2_unblock_signals(&oldset); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx are ocfs2-mknod-fix-recursive-locking-hung.patch