4.20-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu>
commit 2b08b1f12cd664dc7d5c84ead9ff25ae97ad5491 upstream.
The ext4_inline_data_fiemap() function calls fiemap_fill_next_extent()
while still holding the xattr semaphore. This is not necessary and it
triggers a circular lockdep warning. This is because
fiemap_fill_next_extent() could trigger a page fault when it writes
into page which triggers a page fault. If that page is mmaped from
the inline file in question, this could very well result in a
deadlock.
This problem can be reproduced using generic/519 with a file system
configuration which has the inline_data feature enabled.
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu>
Cc: sta...@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
fs/ext4/inline.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/ext4/inline.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inline.c
@@ -1890,12 +1890,12 @@ int ext4_inline_data_fiemap(struct inode
physical += (char *)ext4_raw_inode(&iloc) - iloc.bh->b_data;
physical += offsetof(struct ext4_inode, i_block);
- if (physical)
- error = fiemap_fill_next_extent(fieinfo, start, physical,
- inline_len, flags);
brelse(iloc.bh);
out:
up_read(&EXT4_I(inode)->xattr_sem);
+ if (physical)
+ error = fiemap_fill_next_extent(fieinfo, start, physical,
+ inline_len, flags);
return (error < 0 ? error : 0);
}
