[PATCH 4/4] V2 xfs: fix deadlock in xfs_rtfree_extent with kernel v2.6.37

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Sat Feb 25 03:40:30 CST 2012


On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 08:52:57AM -0800, Kamal Dasu wrote:
> 
> To fix the deadlock caused by recursively calling xfs_rtfree_extent
> from xfs_bunmapi():
> 
>  - removed  xfs_trans_iget() from xfs_rtfree_extent(),
>    instead added asserts that the inode is locked and has an inode_item
>    attached to it.
>  - in xfs_bunmapi() when dealing with an inode with the rt flag
>    call xfs_ilock() and xfs_trans_ijoin() so that the
>    reference count is bumped on the inode and attached it to the
>    transaction before calling into xfs_bmap_del_extent, similar to
>    what we do in xfs_bmap_rtalloc.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kamal Dasu <kdasu.kdev at gmail.com>

This looks good, thanks a lot!

Do you have an easily reproducable testcase for this which we could
put into xfstests?



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