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ext4: fix possible recursive locking warning in EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT
authorAkira Fujita <a-fujita@rs.jp.nec.com>
Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:24:41 +0000 (07:24 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:44:52 +0000 (09:44 -0800)
(cherry picked from commit 49bd22bc4d603a2a4fc2a6a60e156cbea52eb494)

If CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING is enabled, the double_down_write_data_sem()
will trigger a false-positive warning of a recursive lock.  Since we
take i_data_sem for the two inodes ordered by their inode numbers,
this isn't a problem.  Use of down_write_nested() will notify the lock
dependency checker machinery that there is no problem here.

This problem was reported by Brian Rogers:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=125115356928011&w=1

Reported-by: Brian Rogers <brian@xyzw.org>
Signed-off-by: Akira Fujita <a-fujita@rs.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
fs/ext4/move_extent.c

index a7410b34c5ed7f01a808cb2d366b4dafeec1d4c6..2ca6aa3f34e6ca97e61b74149b7e1d99b7e794e3 100644 (file)
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ double_down_write_data_sem(struct inode *orig_inode, struct inode *donor_inode)
        }
 
        down_write(&EXT4_I(first)->i_data_sem);
-       down_write(&EXT4_I(second)->i_data_sem);
+       down_write_nested(&EXT4_I(second)->i_data_sem, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
 }
 
 /**