locks victim and calls the method.
4) rename() that is _not_ cross-directory. Locking rules: caller locks
-the parent, finds source and target, if target already exists - locks it
-and then calls the method.
+the parent, finds source and target, locks source, also locks target if
+it already exists, and then calls the method.
5) link creation. Locking rules:
* lock parent
fail with -ENOTEMPTY
* if new parent is equal to or is a descendent of source
fail with -ELOOP
+ * lock source if it is not a directory.
* if target exists - lock it.
* call the method.
renames will be blocked on filesystem lock and we don't start changing
the order until we had acquired all locks).
-(3) any operation holds at most one lock on non-directory object and
- that lock is acquired after all other locks. (Proof: see descriptions
- of operations).
+(3) locks on non-directory objects are acquired only after taking locks
+ on their parents (which remain their parents until all locks are
+ acquired, by (1) and (2)). (Proof: see descriptions of operations).
Now consider the minimal deadlock. Each process is blocked on
attempt to acquire some lock and already holds at least one lock. Let's
struct inode *new_dir, struct dentry *new_dentry)
{
struct inode *target = new_dentry->d_inode;
+ struct inode *source = old_dentry->d_inode;
int error;
error = security_inode_rename(old_dir, old_dentry, new_dir, new_dentry);
return error;
dget(new_dentry);
+ mutex_lock_nested(&source->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_RENAME_SOURCE);
if (target)
mutex_lock(&target->i_mutex);
out:
if (target)
mutex_unlock(&target->i_mutex);
+ mutex_unlock(&source->i_mutex);
dput(new_dentry);
return error;
}
* 0: the object of the current VFS operation
* 1: parent
* 2: child/target
- * 3: quota file
+ * 3: xattr
+ * 4: quota file
+ * 5: the file being renamed (used only in rename of a non-directory)
*
* The locking order between these classes is
- * parent -> child -> normal -> xattr -> quota
+ * parent -> child -> rename_source -> normal -> xattr -> quota
*/
enum inode_i_mutex_lock_class
{
I_MUTEX_PARENT,
I_MUTEX_CHILD,
I_MUTEX_XATTR,
- I_MUTEX_QUOTA
+ I_MUTEX_QUOTA,
+ I_MUTEX_RENAME_SOURCE
};
/*