Commit f8afead7 authored by Jan Kara's avatar Jan Kara Committed by Mark Fasheh

ocfs2: Fix possible deadlock in ocfs2_write_dquot()

It could happen that some limit has been set via quotactl() and in parallel
->mark_dirty() is called from another thread doing e.g. dquot_alloc_space(). In
such case ocfs2_write_dquot() must not try to sync the dquot because that needs
global quota lock but that ranks above transaction start.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
parent ea455f8a
......@@ -754,7 +754,9 @@ static int ocfs2_mark_dquot_dirty(struct dquot *dquot)
if (dquot->dq_flags & mask)
sync = 1;
spin_unlock(&dq_data_lock);
if (!sync) {
/* This is a slight hack but we can't afford getting global quota
* lock if we already have a transaction started. */
if (!sync || journal_current_handle()) {
status = ocfs2_write_dquot(dquot);
goto out;
}
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