[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2/dlm: remove potential deadlock
Wengang Wang
wen.gang.wang at oracle.com
Mon Jun 21 06:20:28 PDT 2010
This patch is not good, please ignore it. I will post a revised one.
regards,
wengang.
On 10-06-16 14:52, 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. dlm_lockres_put() finally calls dlm_put() which take
> dlm_domain_lock.
>
> The fix is moving the locking on dlm_domain_lock to dlm_ctxt_release() from
> dlm_put(). dlm_ctxt_release() is only called on the release of the last
> reference. Any path should not be holding dlm->spinlock when dropping the "last"
> reference.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wengang Wang <wen.gang.wang at oracle.com>
> ---
> fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmdomain.c | 12 ++++--------
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmdomain.c b/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmdomain.c
> index ab82add..754baf2 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmdomain.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmdomain.c
> @@ -321,28 +321,24 @@ static void dlm_ctxt_release(struct kref *kref)
>
> dlm = container_of(kref, struct dlm_ctxt, dlm_refs);
>
> + if (spin_is_locked(&dlm->spinlock))
> + BUG();
> BUG_ON(dlm->num_joins);
> BUG_ON(dlm->dlm_state == DLM_CTXT_JOINED);
>
> + spin_lock(&dlm_domain_lock);
> /* we may still be in the list if we hit an error during join. */
> list_del_init(&dlm->list);
> -
> spin_unlock(&dlm_domain_lock);
>
> - mlog(0, "freeing memory from domain %s\n", dlm->name);
> -
> wake_up(&dlm_domain_events);
> -
> + mlog(0, "freeing memory from domain %s\n", dlm->name);
> dlm_free_ctxt_mem(dlm);
> -
> - spin_lock(&dlm_domain_lock);
> }
>
> void dlm_put(struct dlm_ctxt *dlm)
> {
> - spin_lock(&dlm_domain_lock);
> kref_put(&dlm->dlm_refs, dlm_ctxt_release);
> - spin_unlock(&dlm_domain_lock);
> }
>
> static void __dlm_get(struct dlm_ctxt *dlm)
> --
> 1.6.6.1
>
>
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