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Commit 5509826f authored by S. Wendy Cheng's avatar S. Wendy Cheng Committed by Steven Whitehouse
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[GFS2] Fix change nlink deadlock



Bugzilla 215088

Fix deadlock in gfs2_change_nlink() while installing RHEL5 into GFS2
partition. The gfs2_rename() apparently needs block allocation for the
new name (into the directory) where it requires rg locks. At the same
time, while updating the nlink count for the replaced file,
gfs2_change_nlink() tries to return the inode meta-data back to resource
group where it needs rg locks too. Our logic doesn't allow process to
acquire these locks recursively by the same process  (RHEL installer)
that results a BUG call. This only happens within rename code path and
only if the destination file exists before the rename operation.

Signed-off-by: default avatarS. Wendy Cheng <wcheng@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
parent e1d5b18a
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