[PATCH] xfs: fix deadlock in xfs_rtfree_extent with kernel v3.x
Ben Myers
bpm at sgi.com
Thu Mar 22 14:59:43 CDT 2012
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 07:41:39PM -0500, Kamal Dasu wrote:
> To fix the deadlock caused by recursively calling xfs_rtfree_extent
>
> - removed xfs_ilock() and xfs_trans_ijoin() 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>
Kamal, this looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: Ben Myers <bpm at sgi.com>
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