Commit 789d95e6 authored by Neil Brown's avatar Neil Brown Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] kNFSd: Fix deadlock problem in lockd.

nlmsvc_lock calls nlmsvc_create_block with file->f_sema
held.
nlmsvc_create_block calls nlmclnt_lookup_host which might
call nlm_gc_hosts which might, eventually, try to claim
file->f_sema for the same file -> deadlock.

nlmsvc_create_block does not need any protection under
any lock as lockd is single-threaded and _create_block
only plays with internal data structures.

So we release the f_sema before calling in, and make sure
it gets claimed again afterwards.
parent 7cb09575
......@@ -305,8 +305,6 @@ nlmsvc_lock(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct nlm_file *file,
(long long)lock->fl.fl_end,
wait);
/* Lock file against concurrent access */
down(&file->f_sema);
/* Get existing block (in case client is busy-waiting) */
block = nlmsvc_lookup_block(file, lock, 0);
......@@ -314,6 +312,9 @@ nlmsvc_lock(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct nlm_file *file,
lock->fl.fl_flags |= FL_LOCKD;
again:
/* Lock file against concurrent access */
down(&file->f_sema);
if (!(conflock = posix_test_lock(&file->f_file, &lock->fl))) {
error = posix_lock_file(&file->f_file, &lock->fl);
......@@ -346,7 +347,10 @@ nlmsvc_lock(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct nlm_file *file,
/* If we don't have a block, create and initialize it. Then
* retry because we may have slept in kmalloc. */
/* We have to release f_sema as nlmsvc_create_block may try to
* to claim it while doing host garbage collection */
if (block == NULL) {
up(&file->f_sema);
dprintk("lockd: blocking on this lock (allocating).\n");
if (!(block = nlmsvc_create_block(rqstp, file, lock, cookie)))
return nlm_lck_denied_nolocks;
......
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