CIFS: fix deadlock in cached root handling

[platform/kernel/linux-rpi.git] / fs / drop_caches.c

diff --git a/fs/drop_caches.c b/fs/drop_caches.c
index 8237701..d31b6c7 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/drop_caches.c
+++ b/fs/drop_caches.c
@@ -21,8 +21,13 @@ static void drop_pagecache_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *unused)
        spin_lock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock);
        list_for_each_entry(inode, &sb->s_inodes, i_sb_list) {
                spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
+               /*
+                * We must skip inodes in unusual state. We may also skip
+                * inodes without pages but we deliberately won't in case
+                * we need to reschedule to avoid softlockups.
+                */
                if ((inode->i_state & (I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE|I_NEW)) ||
-                   (inode->i_mapping->nrpages == 0)) {
+                   (inode->i_mapping->nrpages == 0 && !need_resched())) {
                        spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
                        continue;
                }
@@ -30,6 +35,7 @@ static void drop_pagecache_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *unused)
                spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
                spin_unlock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock);
 
+               cond_resched();
                invalidate_mapping_pages(inode->i_mapping, 0, -1);
                iput(toput_inode);
                toput_inode = inode;