vfs: dcache: fix deadlock in tree traversal

IBM reported a deadlock in select_parent().  This was found to be caused
by taking rename_lock when already locked when restarting the tree
traversal.

There are two cases when the traversal needs to be restarted:

 1) concurrent d_move(); this can only happen when not already locked,
    since taking rename_lock protects against concurrent d_move().

 2) racing with final d_put() on child just at the moment of ascending
    to parent; rename_lock doesn't protect against this rare race, so it
    can happen when already locked.

Because of case 2, we need to be able to handle restarting the traversal
when rename_lock is already held.  This patch fixes all three callers of
try_to_ascend().

IBM reported that the deadlock is gone with this patch.

[ I rewrote the patch to be smaller and just do the "goto again" if the
  lock was already held, but credit goes to Miklos for the real work.
   - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 0364af2..693f95b 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -1134,6 +1134,8 @@ positive:
        return 1;
 
 rename_retry:
+       if (locked)
+               goto again;
        locked = 1;
        write_seqlock(&rename_lock);
        goto again;
@@ -1236,6 +1238,8 @@ out:
 rename_retry:
        if (found)
                return found;
+       if (locked)
+               goto again;
        locked = 1;
        write_seqlock(&rename_lock);
        goto again;
@@ -3035,6 +3039,8 @@ resume:
        return;
 
 rename_retry:
+       if (locked)
+               goto again;
        locked = 1;
        write_seqlock(&rename_lock);
        goto again;