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Re: [PATCH] libdiskfs: fix deadlock


From: Samuel Thibault
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libdiskfs: fix deadlock
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:44:17 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21+34 (58baf7c9f32f) (2010-12-30)

Justus Winter, le Sun 22 Jun 2014 15:45:42 +0200, a écrit :
> Previously, libdiskfs would deadlock on contention on renamedirlock
> due to the lock being taken spuriously.
> 
> Found using fsstress from the Linux Test Project.

Wow, good spot!

Ack!

> * libdiskfs/dir-rename.c (diskfs_S_dir_rename): Remove spurious
> pthread_mutex_lock.
> ---
>  libdiskfs/dir-rename.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/libdiskfs/dir-rename.c b/libdiskfs/dir-rename.c
> index ff9dead..9ac4839 100644
> --- a/libdiskfs/dir-rename.c
> +++ b/libdiskfs/dir-rename.c
> @@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ diskfs_S_dir_rename (struct protid *fromcred,
>        if (pthread_mutex_trylock (&renamedirlock))
>       {
>         diskfs_nrele (fnp);
> -       pthread_mutex_lock (&renamedirlock);
>         goto try_again;
>       }
>        err = diskfs_rename_dir (fdp, fnp, fromname, tdp, toname, fromcred,
> -- 
> 2.0.0
> 

-- 
Samuel
<N> un driver qui fait quoi, alors ?
<y> ben pour les bips
<s> pour passer les oops en morse
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