[fuse] fix deadlock between fuse_put_super() and request_end()

A deadlock was possible, when the last reference to the superblock was
held due to a background request containing a file reference.

Releasing the file would release the vfsmount which in turn would
release the superblock.  Since sbput_sem is held during the fput() and
fuse_put_super() tries to acquire this same semaphore, a deadlock
results.

The chosen soltuion is to get rid of sbput_sem, and instead use the
spinlock to ensure the referenced inodes/file are released only once.
Since the actual release may sleep, defer these outside the locked
region, but using local variables instead of the structure members.

This is a much more rubust solution.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/fs/fuse/inode.c b/fs/fuse/inode.c
index fd34037b058..43a6fc0db8a 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/inode.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/inode.c
@@ -204,17 +204,26 @@ static void fuse_put_super(struct super_block *sb)
 {
 	struct fuse_conn *fc = get_fuse_conn_super(sb);
 
-	down_write(&fc->sbput_sem);
-	while (!list_empty(&fc->background))
-		fuse_release_background(fc,
-					list_entry(fc->background.next,
-						   struct fuse_req, bg_entry));
-
 	spin_lock(&fc->lock);
-	fc->mounted = 0;
 	fc->connected = 0;
+	while (!list_empty(&fc->background)) {
+		struct fuse_req *req = list_entry(fc->background.next,
+						  struct fuse_req, bg_entry);
+		struct inode *inode = req->inode;
+		struct inode *inode2 = req->inode2;
+
+		/* File would hold a reference to vfsmount */
+		BUG_ON(req->file);
+		req->inode = NULL;
+		req->inode2 = NULL;
+		fuse_remove_background(fc, req);
+
+		spin_unlock(&fc->lock);
+		iput(inode);
+		iput(inode2);
+		spin_lock(&fc->lock);
+	}
 	spin_unlock(&fc->lock);
-	up_write(&fc->sbput_sem);
 	/* Flush all readers on this fs */
 	kill_fasync(&fc->fasync, SIGIO, POLL_IN);
 	wake_up_all(&fc->waitq);
@@ -386,7 +395,6 @@ static struct fuse_conn *new_conn(void)
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&fc->processing);
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&fc->io);
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&fc->background);
-		init_rwsem(&fc->sbput_sem);
 		kobj_set_kset_s(fc, connections_subsys);
 		kobject_init(&fc->kobj);
 		atomic_set(&fc->num_waiting, 0);
@@ -541,7 +549,6 @@ static int fuse_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 		goto err_free_req;
 
 	sb->s_root = root_dentry;
-	fc->mounted = 1;
 	fc->connected = 1;
 	kobject_get(&fc->kobj);
 	file->private_data = fc;