[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] fix dead lock caused by ocfs2_defrag_extent

[Larry Chen]

ocfs2_defrag_extent may fall into dead lock.

ocfs2_ioctl_move_extents
  ocfs2_ioctl_move_extents	
    ocfs2_move_extents
      ocfs2_defrag_extent
        ocfs2_lock_allocators_move_extents  

          ocfs2_reserve_clusters
            inode_lock GLOBAL_BITMAP_SYSTEM_INODE

	  __ocfs2_flush_truncate_log
            inode_lock GLOBAL_BITMAP_SYSTEM_INODE

As back trace shows above, ocfs2_reserve_clusters will call inode_lock
against the global bitmap if local allocator has not sufficient cluters. 
Once global bitmap could meet the demand, ocfs2_reserve_cluster will 
return success with global bitmap locked.

After ocfs2_reserve_cluster, if truncate log is full, 
__ocfs2_flush_truncate_log will definitely fall into dead lock
because it needs to inode_lock global bitmap, which has
already been locked.

To fix this bug, we could remove from ocfs2_lock_allocators_move_extents 
the code which intends to lock global allocator, and put the removed
code after __ocfs2_flush_truncate_log

The ocfs2_lock_allocators_move_extents has been refered by 2 places, one
is here, the other does not need the data allocator context, which means
this patch does not affect the caller so far.



Signed-off-by: Larry Chen <lchen at suse.com>
---
 fs/ocfs2/move_extents.c | 13 ++++++-------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/move_extents.c b/fs/ocfs2/move_extents.c
index 7eb3b0a6347e..064dedf40d74 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/move_extents.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/move_extents.c
@@ -192,13 +192,6 @@ static int ocfs2_lock_allocators_move_extents(struct inode *inode,
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	if (data_ac) {
-		ret = ocfs2_reserve_clusters(osb, clusters_to_move, data_ac);
-		if (ret) {
-			mlog_errno(ret);
-			goto out;
-		}
-	}
 
 	*credits += ocfs2_calc_extend_credits(osb->sb, et->et_root_el);
 
@@ -283,6 +276,12 @@ static int ocfs2_defrag_extent(struct ocfs2_move_extents_context *context,
 		}
 	}
 
+	ret = ocfs2_reserve_clusters(osb, *len, &context->data_ac);
+	if (ret) {
+		mlog_errno(ret);
+		goto out_unlock_mutex;
+	}
+
 	handle = ocfs2_start_trans(osb, credits);
 	if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
 		ret = PTR_ERR(handle);
-- 
2.13.7