[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2/dlm: remove potential deadlock -V3

[Joel Becker]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:18:00PM +0800, Wengang Wang wrote:
> When we need to take both dlm_domain_lock and dlm->spinlock, we should take
> them in order of: dlm_domain_lock then dlm->spinlock.
> 
> There is pathes disobey this order. That is calling dlm_lockres_put() with
> dlm->spinlock held in dlm_run_purge_list. dlm_lockres_put() calls dlm_put() at
> the ref and dlm_put() locks on dlm_domain_lock.
> 
> Fix:
> Don't grab/put the dlm when the initialising/releasing lockres.
> That grab is not required because we don't call dlm_unregister_domain()
> based on refcount.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wengang Wang <wen.gang.wang at oracle.com>

This patch is now in the fixes branch of ocfs2.git.

Joel
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