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ocfs2: fix a tiny race when running dirop_fileop_racer
authorYiwen Jiang <jiangyiwen@huawei.com>
Mon, 16 Dec 2013 23:44:57 +0000 (10:44 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Mon, 16 Dec 2013 23:44:57 +0000 (10:44 +1100)
commit97eb5f4b918903b836d0dafe43021d946020b899
tree7acd8c6dbb0dcac9929e742a5eb06bede7a0dca4
parentef4f6a3cea5e4dcd68e21fca60886572ffd8a50d
ocfs2: fix a tiny race when running dirop_fileop_racer

When running dirop_fileop_racer we found a dead lock case.

2 nodes, say Node A and Node B, mount the same ocfs2 volume.  Create
/race/16/1 in the filesystem, and let the inode number of dir 16 is less
than the inode number of dir race.

Node A                            Node B
mv /race/16/1 /race/
                                  right after Node A has got the
                                  EX mode of /race/16/, and tries to
                                  get EX mode of /race
                                  ls /race/16/

In this case, Node A has got the EX mode of /race/16/, and wants to get EX
mode of /race/.  Node B has got the PR mode of /race/, and wants to get
the PR mode of /race/16/.  Since EX and PR are mutually exclusive, dead
lock happens.

This patch fixes this case by locking in ancestor order before trying
inode number order.

Signed-off-by: Yiwen Jiang <jiangyiwen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@huawei.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
fs/ocfs2/namei.c