Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:42548 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932681AbeCWKK2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Mar 2018 06:10:28 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Trond Myklebust , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 4.9 123/177] pNFS: Fix a deadlock when coalescing writes and returning the layout Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 10:54:11 +0100 Message-Id: <20180323094210.671622255@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180323094205.090519271@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180323094205.090519271@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Trond Myklebust [ Upstream commit 61f454e30c18a28924e96be12592c0d5e24bcc81 ] Consider the following deadlock: Process P1 Process P2 Process P3 ========== ========== ========== lock_page(page) lseg = pnfs_update_layout(inode) lo = NFS_I(inode)->layout pnfs_error_mark_layout_for_return(lo) lock_page(page) lseg = pnfs_update_layout(inode) In this scenario, - P1 has declared the layout to be in error, but P2 holds a reference to a layout segment on that inode, so the layoutreturn is deferred. - P2 is waiting for a page lock held by P3. - P3 is asking for a new layout segment, but is blocked waiting for the layoutreturn. The fix is to ensure that pnfs_error_mark_layout_for_return() does not set the NFS_LAYOUT_RETURN flag, which blocks P3. Instead, we allow the latter to call LAYOUTGET so that it can make progress and unblock P2. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/nfs/pnfs.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/nfs/pnfs.c +++ b/fs/nfs/pnfs.c @@ -1953,8 +1953,6 @@ void pnfs_error_mark_layout_for_return(s spin_lock(&inode->i_lock); pnfs_set_plh_return_info(lo, range.iomode, 0); - /* Block LAYOUTGET */ - set_bit(NFS_LAYOUT_RETURN, &lo->plh_flags); /* * mark all matching lsegs so that we are sure to have no live * segments at hand when sending layoutreturn. See pnfs_put_lseg()