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From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>, Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] vfs: Fix lock inversion in drop_pagecache_sb()
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:12:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080325181227.GE5125@duck.suse.cz> (raw)

Fix longstanding lock inversion in drop_pagecache_sb by dropping inode_lock
before calling __invalidate_mapping_pages(). We just have to make sure
inode won't go away from under us by keeping reference to it and putting
the reference only after we have safely resumed the scan of the inode
list. A bit tricky but not too bad...

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
CC: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
CC: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>

---
 fs/drop_caches.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/drop_caches.c b/fs/drop_caches.c
index 59375ef..f5aae26 100644
--- a/fs/drop_caches.c
+++ b/fs/drop_caches.c
@@ -14,15 +14,21 @@ int sysctl_drop_caches;
 
 static void drop_pagecache_sb(struct super_block *sb)
 {
-	struct inode *inode;
+	struct inode *inode, *toput_inode = NULL;
 
 	spin_lock(&inode_lock);
 	list_for_each_entry(inode, &sb->s_inodes, i_sb_list) {
 		if (inode->i_state & (I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE))
 			continue;
+		__iget(inode);
+		spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
 		__invalidate_mapping_pages(inode->i_mapping, 0, -1, true);
+		iput(toput_inode);
+		toput_inode = inode;
+		spin_lock(&inode_lock);
 	}
 	spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
+	iput(toput_inode);
 }
 
 void drop_pagecache(void)
-- 
1.5.2.4


             reply	other threads:[~2008-03-25 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-25 18:12 Jan Kara [this message]
2008-03-25 19:53 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-25 22:01   ` Trond Myklebust
     [not found]   ` <E1JeKRA-0002JM-Ot@localhost>
2008-03-26  1:28     ` Fengguang Wu
2008-03-26  9:31   ` Jan Kara
2008-03-26  9:33   ` [PATCH] vfs: Skip inodes without pages to free " Jan Kara
     [not found] ` <E1JeJkq-0001bZ-6Z@localhost>
2008-03-26  0:44   ` [PATCH] vfs: Fix lock inversion " Fengguang Wu

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