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Commit 9ffbb916 authored by Miklos Szeredi's avatar Miklos Szeredi Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] fuse: fix hang on SMP



Fuse didn't always call i_size_write() with i_mutex held which caused rare
hangs on SMP/32bit.  This bug has been present since fuse-2.2, well before
being merged into mainline.

The simplest solution is to protect i_size_write() with the per-connection
spinlock.  Using i_mutex for this purpose would require some restructuring of
the code and I'm not even sure it's always safe to acquire i_mutex in all
places i_size needs to be set.

Since most of vmtruncate is already duplicated for other reasons, duplicate
the remaining part as well, making all i_size_write() calls internal to fuse.

Using i_size_write() was unnecessary in fuse_init_inode(), since this function
is only called on a newly created locked inode.

Reported by a few people over the years, but special thanks to Dana Henriksen
who was persistent enough in helping me debug it.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 48d1a7ea
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