Re: 2.6.9-rc2 hangs in posix_locks_deadlock

["Vladimir B. Savkin" <master@sectorb.msk.ru>]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 03:51:43PM -0700, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> Hmm...  It appears that it is indeed possible for both leases and flocks
> to be on the global "blocked_list", so the appended check is *not*
> redundant.
> Since flocks in particular do not initialize fl_owner, I suspect that
> you might be seeing wierd loops that were previously being avoided due
> to the ->fl_pid checks...

I just noticed that this fix didn't make it into 2.6.9.

> [PATCH] fix posix_locks_deadlock().
> 
> "blocked_list" may contain both leases and flock locks. Since the latter in
> particular do not initialize the fl_owner field, we have to beware not to
> call posix_same_owner() on them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
> ---
>  locks.c |    7 +++----
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.9-rc2-up/fs/locks.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.9-rc2-up.orig/fs/locks.c	2004-09-19 13:55:33.680258334 -0700
> +++ linux-2.6.9-rc2-up/fs/locks.c	2004-09-19 15:37:32.595634679 -0700
> @@ -634,14 +634,13 @@
>  int posix_locks_deadlock(struct file_lock *caller_fl,
>  				struct file_lock *block_fl)
>  {
> -	struct list_head *tmp;
> +	struct file_lock *fl;
>  
>  next_task:
>  	if (posix_same_owner(caller_fl, block_fl))
>  		return 1;
> -	list_for_each(tmp, &blocked_list) {
> -		struct file_lock *fl = list_entry(tmp, struct file_lock, fl_link);
> -		if (posix_same_owner(fl, block_fl)) {
> +	list_for_each_entry(fl, &blocked_list, fl_link) {
> +		if (IS_POSIX(fl) && posix_same_owner(fl, block_fl)) {
>  			fl = fl->fl_next;
>  			block_fl = fl;
>  			goto next_task;

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                                        With best regards, 
                                           Vladimir Savkin.