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Commit b10ab4c3 authored by Frederic Weisbecker's avatar Frederic Weisbecker
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kill-the-bkl/reiserfs: fix recursive reiserfs lock in reiserfs_mkdir() 



reiserfs_mkdir() acquires the reiserfs lock, assuming it has been called
from the dir inodes callbacks, without the lock held.

But it can also be called from other internal sites such as
reiserfs_xattr_init() which already holds the lock. This recursive
locking leads to further wrong assumptions. For example, later calls
to reiserfs_mutex_lock_safe() won't actually unlock the reiserfs lock
the time we acquire a given mutex, creating unexpected lock inversions.

Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Cc: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
parent ae635c0b

fs/reiserfs/namei.c

+4 −3
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@@ -732,6 +732,7 @@ static int reiserfs_mkdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, int mode) 
	struct inode *inode;

	struct reiserfs_transaction_handle th;

	struct reiserfs_security_handle security;

	int lock_depth;

	/* We need blocks for transaction + (user+group)*(quotas for new inode + update of quota for directory owner) */

	int jbegin_count =

	    JOURNAL_PER_BALANCE_CNT * 3 +
@@ -755,7 +756,7 @@ static int reiserfs_mkdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, int mode) 
		return retval;

	}

	jbegin_count += retval;

	reiserfs_write_lock(dir->i_sb);

	lock_depth = reiserfs_write_lock_once(dir->i_sb);



	retval = journal_begin(&th, dir->i_sb, jbegin_count);

	if (retval) {
@@ -806,7 +807,7 @@ static int reiserfs_mkdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, int mode) 
	unlock_new_inode(inode);

	retval = journal_end(&th, dir->i_sb, jbegin_count);

out_failed:

	reiserfs_write_unlock(dir->i_sb);

	reiserfs_write_unlock_once(dir->i_sb, lock_depth);

	return retval;

}