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From: Fredrick Prashanth John Berchmans <fredrickprashanth@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: fredrickprashanth@gmail.com
Subject: nfs accesses of FAT fs folders causes deadlock on lock_super
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 22:59:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <x2gd4f60c3c1005032259p8be864bcucff91618016a0eb@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

A FAT fs folder was shared using nfs. Accessing it over nfs causes
deadlock on lock_super since
it is acquired by both __fat_readdir and vfat_lookup in the following
call chain.

Call chain
#lock_super <----causes deadlock
#vfat_lookup
#__lookup_hash
#lookup_one_len
#compose_entry_fh
#encode_entry
#nfs3svc_encode_entry_plus
#__fat_readdir <---does lock_super
#fat_readdir
#vfs_readdir
#nfsd_readdir
#nfsd3_proc_readdirplus
#nfsd_dispatch
#svc_process
#nfsd


Is lock_super needed in the vfat_lookup?
Can it be removed?

The box was running kernel version 2.6.27.10.
But I think the FAT code has not changed much.

Thanks,
Fredrick

             reply	other threads:[~2010-05-04  5:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-04  5:59 Fredrick Prashanth John Berchmans [this message]
2010-05-04 10:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-04 14:05   ` Fredrick Prashanth John Berchmans
2010-05-04 18:37     ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-05-04 18:01   ` Fredrick Prashanth John Berchmans
2010-05-04 18:41     ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-05-04 19:43       ` Fredrick Prashanth John Berchmans

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