Commit 66fa9912 authored by Bob Peterson's avatar Bob Peterson Committed by Andreas Gruenbacher

gfs2: conversion deadlock do_promote bypass

Consider the following case:
1. A glock is held in shared mode.
2. A process requests the glock in exclusive mode (rename).
3. Before the lock is granted, more processes (read / ls) request the
   glock in shared mode again.
4. gfs2 sends a request to dlm for the lock in exclusive mode because
   that holder is at the head of the queue.
5. Somehow the dlm request gets canceled, so dlm sends us back a
   response with state == LM_ST_SHARED and LM_OUT_CANCELED.  So at that
   point, the glock is still held in shared mode.
6. finish_xmote gets called to process the response from dlm. It detects
   that the glock is not in the requested mode and no demote is in
   progress, so it moves the canceled holder to the tail of the queue
   and finds the new holder at the head of the queue.  That holder is
   requesting the glock in shared mode.
7. finish_xmote calls do_xmote to transition the glock into shared mode,
   but the glock is already in shared mode and so do_xmote complains
   about that with:
	GLOCK_BUG_ON(gl, gl->gl_state == gl->gl_target);

Instead, in finish_xmote, after moving the canceled holder to the tail
of the queue, check if any new holders can be granted.  Only call
do_xmote to repeat the dlm request if the holder at the head of the
queue is requesting the glock in a mode that is incompatible with the
mode the glock is currently held in.
Signed-off-by: default avatarBob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
parent 0b93bac2
......@@ -594,6 +594,8 @@ static void finish_xmote(struct gfs2_glock *gl, unsigned int ret)
list_move_tail(&gh->gh_list, &gl->gl_holders);
gh = find_first_waiter(gl);
gl->gl_target = gh->gh_state;
if (do_promote(gl))
goto out;
goto retry;
}
/* Some error or failed "try lock" - report it */
......
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