commit 41b729e41b226e1edb23d1fd4cbaf2049e99ba7d
Author: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri Nov 16 13:45:20 2007 -0500
Unionfs: avoid a deadlock during branch-management on a pivot_root'ed union
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff --git a/fs/unionfs/union.h b/fs/unionfs/union.h
index 092e7f5..c93b26c 100644
--- a/fs/unionfs/union.h
+++ b/fs/unionfs/union.h
@@ -173,15 +173,22 @@ struct unionfs_sb_info {
* This rwsem is used to make sure that a branch management
* operation...
* 1) will not begin before all currently in-flight operations
- * complete
+ * complete.
* 2) any new operations do not execute until the currently
- * running branch management operation completes
+ * running branch management operation completes.
+ *
+ * The write_lock_owner records the PID of the task which grabbed
+ * the rw_sem for writing. If the same task also tries to grab the
+ * read lock, we allow it. This prevents a self-deadlock when
+ * branch-management is used on a pivot_root'ed union, because we
+ * have to ->lookup paths which belong to the same union.
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
struct compat_rw_semaphore rwsem;
#else /* not CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT */
struct rw_semaphore rwsem;
#endif /* not CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT */
+ pid_t write_lock_owner; /* PID of rw_sem owner (write lock) */
int high_branch_id; /* last unique branch ID given */
struct odf_sb_info odf;
struct unionfs_data *data;
@@ -253,10 +260,30 @@ extern struct filldir_node *find_filldir_node(
#define MAXRDCOOKIE (0xfff)
#define DIREOF (0xffffff)
-#define unionfs_read_lock(sb) down_read(&UNIONFS_SB(sb)->rwsem)
-#define unionfs_read_unlock(sb) up_read(&UNIONFS_SB(sb)->rwsem)
-#define unionfs_write_lock(sb) down_write(&UNIONFS_SB(sb)->rwsem)
-#define unionfs_write_unlock(sb) up_write(&UNIONFS_SB(sb)->rwsem)
+static inline void unionfs_read_lock(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+ if (UNIONFS_SB(sb)->write_lock_owner &&
+ UNIONFS_SB(sb)->write_lock_owner == current->pid)
+ return;
+ down_read(&UNIONFS_SB(sb)->rwsem);
+}
+static inline void unionfs_read_unlock(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+ if (UNIONFS_SB(sb)->write_lock_owner &&
+ UNIONFS_SB(sb)->write_lock_owner == current->pid)
+ return;
+ up_read(&UNIONFS_SB(sb)->rwsem);
+}
+static inline void unionfs_write_lock(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+ down_write(&UNIONFS_SB(sb)->rwsem);
+ UNIONFS_SB(sb)->write_lock_owner = current->pid;
+}
+static inline void unionfs_write_unlock(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+ up_write(&UNIONFS_SB(sb)->rwsem);
+ UNIONFS_SB(sb)->write_lock_owner = 0;
+}
static inline void unionfs_double_lock_dentry(struct dentry *d1,
struct dentry *d2)
_______________________________________________
unionfs-cvs mailing list: http://unionfs.filesystems.org/
[email protected]
http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/mailman/listinfo/unionfs-cvs
