LOCKD: Fix a deadlock in nlm_traverse_files()
authorTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:58:57 +0000 (11:58 -0400)
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:51:00 +0000 (15:51 -0400)
nlm_traverse_files() is not allowed to hold the nlm_file_mutex while calling
nlm_inspect file, since it may end up calling nlm_release_file() when
releaseing the blocks.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
(cherry picked from e558d3cde986e04f68afe8c790ad68ef4b94587a commit)

fs/lockd/svcsubs.c

index 2a4df9b3779a154d0a2c9c0a43b87295c9a3b808..01b4db9e5466d51f98383c221e41a8ede824421c 100644 (file)
@@ -237,19 +237,22 @@ static int
 nlm_traverse_files(struct nlm_host *host, int action)
 {
        struct nlm_file *file, **fp;
-       int             i;
+       int i, ret = 0;
 
        mutex_lock(&nlm_file_mutex);
        for (i = 0; i < FILE_NRHASH; i++) {
                fp = nlm_files + i;
                while ((file = *fp) != NULL) {
+                       file->f_count++;
+                       mutex_unlock(&nlm_file_mutex);
+
                        /* Traverse locks, blocks and shares of this file
                         * and update file->f_locks count */
-                       if (nlm_inspect_file(host, file, action)) {
-                               mutex_unlock(&nlm_file_mutex);
-                               return 1;
-                       }
+                       if (nlm_inspect_file(host, file, action))
+                               ret = 1;
 
+                       mutex_lock(&nlm_file_mutex);
+                       file->f_count--;
                        /* No more references to this file. Let go of it. */
                        if (!file->f_blocks && !file->f_locks
                         && !file->f_shares && !file->f_count) {
@@ -262,7 +265,7 @@ nlm_traverse_files(struct nlm_host *host, int action)
                }
        }
        mutex_unlock(&nlm_file_mutex);
-       return 0;
+       return ret;
 }
 
 /*