Re: [patch 07/20] spufs: fix deadlock in spu_create error path

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On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 20:33 +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> plain text document attachment (spufs-rmdir-3.diff)
> From: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
> 
> spufs_rmdir tries to acquire the spufs root
> i_mutex, which is already held by spufs_create_thread.
> 
> This was tracked as Bug #H9512.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>

I should have signed this off when I sent it .. but FWIW:

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>

> ---
> 
> Index: powerpc.git/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c
> ===================================================================
> --- powerpc.git.orig/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c
> +++ powerpc.git/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c
> @@ -157,20 +157,12 @@ static void spufs_prune_dir(struct dentr
>  	mutex_unlock(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex);
>  }
>  
> +/* Caller must hold root->i_mutex */
>  static int spufs_rmdir(struct inode *root, struct dentry *dir_dentry)
>  {
> -	struct spu_context *ctx;
> -
>  	/* remove all entries */
> -	mutex_lock(&root->i_mutex);
>  	spufs_prune_dir(dir_dentry);
> -	mutex_unlock(&root->i_mutex);
>  
> -	/* We have to give up the mm_struct */
> -	ctx = SPUFS_I(dir_dentry->d_inode)->i_ctx;
> -	spu_forget(ctx);
> -
> -	/* XXX Do we need to hold i_mutex here ? */
>  	return simple_rmdir(root, dir_dentry);
>  }
>  
> @@ -199,16 +191,23 @@ out:
>  
>  static int spufs_dir_close(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
>  {
> +	struct spu_context *ctx;
>  	struct inode *dir;
>  	struct dentry *dentry;
>  	int ret;
>  
>  	dentry = file->f_dentry;
>  	dir = dentry->d_parent->d_inode;
> +	ctx = SPUFS_I(dentry->d_inode)->i_ctx;
>  
> +	mutex_lock(&dir->i_mutex);
>  	ret = spufs_rmdir(dir, dentry);
> +	mutex_unlock(&dir->i_mutex);
>  	WARN_ON(ret);
>  
> +	/* We have to give up the mm_struct */
> +	spu_forget(ctx);
> +
>  	return dcache_dir_close(inode, file);
>  }
>  
> @@ -324,8 +323,13 @@ long spufs_create_thread(struct nameidat
>  	 * in error path of *_open().
>  	 */
>  	ret = spufs_context_open(dget(dentry), mntget(nd->mnt));
> -	if (ret < 0)
> -		spufs_rmdir(nd->dentry->d_inode, dentry);
> +	if (ret < 0) {
> +		WARN_ON(spufs_rmdir(nd->dentry->d_inode, dentry));
> +		mutex_unlock(&nd->dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
> +		spu_forget(SPUFS_I(dentry->d_inode)->i_ctx);
> +		dput(dentry);
> +		goto out;
> +	}
>  
>  out_dput:
>  	dput(dentry);

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