From 05eb0f252b04aa94ace0794f73d56c6a02351d80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kay Sievers Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:21:35 +0200 Subject: loop: fix deadlock when sysfs and LOOP_CLR_FD race against each other LOOP_CLR_FD takes lo->lo_ctl_mutex and tries to remove the loop sysfs files. Sysfs calls show() and waits for lo->lo_ctl_mutex. LOOP_CLR_FD waits for show() to finish to remove the sysfs file. cat /sys/class/block/loop0/loop/backing_file mutex_lock_nested+0x176/0x350 ? loop_attr_do_show_backing_file+0x2f/0xd0 [loop] ? loop_attr_do_show_backing_file+0x2f/0xd0 [loop] loop_attr_do_show_backing_file+0x2f/0xd0 [loop] dev_attr_show+0x1b/0x60 ? sysfs_read_file+0x86/0x1a0 ? __get_free_pages+0x12/0x50 sysfs_read_file+0xaf/0x1a0 ioctl(LOOP_CLR_FD): wait_for_common+0x12c/0x180 ? try_to_wake_up+0x2a0/0x2a0 wait_for_completion+0x18/0x20 sysfs_deactivate+0x178/0x180 ? sysfs_addrm_finish+0x43/0x70 ? sysfs_addrm_start+0x1d/0x20 sysfs_addrm_finish+0x43/0x70 sysfs_hash_and_remove+0x85/0xa0 sysfs_remove_group+0x59/0x100 loop_clr_fd+0x1dc/0x3f0 [loop] lo_ioctl+0x223/0x7a0 [loop] Instead of taking the lo_ctl_mutex from sysfs code, take the inner lo->lo_lock, to protect the access to the backing_file data. Thanks to Tejun for help debugging and finding a solution. Cc: Milan Broz Cc: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- drivers/block/loop.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/block') diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c index 3defc52f060..4720c7ade0a 100644 --- a/drivers/block/loop.c +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c @@ -743,10 +743,10 @@ static ssize_t loop_attr_backing_file_show(struct loop_device *lo, char *buf) ssize_t ret; char *p = NULL; - mutex_lock(&lo->lo_ctl_mutex); + spin_lock_irq(&lo->lo_lock); if (lo->lo_backing_file) p = d_path(&lo->lo_backing_file->f_path, buf, PAGE_SIZE - 1); - mutex_unlock(&lo->lo_ctl_mutex); + spin_unlock_irq(&lo->lo_lock); if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(p)) ret = PTR_ERR(p); @@ -1000,7 +1000,9 @@ static int loop_clr_fd(struct loop_device *lo, struct block_device *bdev) kthread_stop(lo->lo_thread); + spin_lock_irq(&lo->lo_lock); lo->lo_backing_file = NULL; + spin_unlock_irq(&lo->lo_lock); loop_release_xfer(lo); lo->transfer = NULL; -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2