On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:36:17 +0400
Pavel Shilovsky <[email protected]> wrote:

> We can deadlock if we have a write oplock and two processes
> use the same file handle. In this case the first process can't
> unlock its lock if the second process blocked on the lock in the
> same time.
> 
> Fix it by using posix_lock_file rather than posix_lock_file_wait
> under cinode->lock_mutex. If we request a blocking lock and
> posix_lock_file indicates that there is another lock that prevents
> us, wait untill that lock is released and restart our call.
> 
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <[email protected]>
> ---
>  fs/cifs/file.c     |   10 +++++++++-
>  fs/locks.c         |    3 ++-
>  include/linux/fs.h |    5 +++++
>  3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/file.c b/fs/cifs/file.c
> index 460d87b..fae765d 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/file.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/file.c
> @@ -835,13 +835,21 @@ cifs_posix_lock_set(struct file *file, struct file_lock 
> *flock)
>       if ((flock->fl_flags & FL_POSIX) == 0)
>               return rc;
>  
> +try_again:
>       mutex_lock(&cinode->lock_mutex);
>       if (!cinode->can_cache_brlcks) {
>               mutex_unlock(&cinode->lock_mutex);
>               return rc;
>       }
> -     rc = posix_lock_file_wait(file, flock);
> +
> +     rc = posix_lock_file(file, flock, NULL);
>       mutex_unlock(&cinode->lock_mutex);
> +     if (rc == FILE_LOCK_DEFERRED) {
> +             rc = wait_event_interruptible(flock->fl_wait, !flock->fl_next);
> +             if (!rc)
> +                     goto try_again;
> +             locks_delete_block(flock);
> +     }
>       return rc;
>  }
>  
> diff --git a/fs/locks.c b/fs/locks.c
> index 637694b..0d68f1f 100644
> --- a/fs/locks.c
> +++ b/fs/locks.c
> @@ -510,12 +510,13 @@ static void __locks_delete_block(struct file_lock 
> *waiter)
>  
>  /*
>   */
> -static void locks_delete_block(struct file_lock *waiter)
> +void locks_delete_block(struct file_lock *waiter)
>  {
>       lock_flocks();
>       __locks_delete_block(waiter);
>       unlock_flocks();
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(locks_delete_block);
>  

Since this now touches basic VFS layer code, you should also cc
linux-fsdevel and probably LKML.

>  /* Insert waiter into blocker's block list.
>   * We use a circular list so that processes can be easily woken up in
> diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
> index fa63f1b..d8fd8df 100644
> --- a/include/linux/fs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/fs.h
> @@ -1211,6 +1211,7 @@ extern int vfs_setlease(struct file *, long, struct 
> file_lock **);
>  extern int lease_modify(struct file_lock **, int);
>  extern int lock_may_read(struct inode *, loff_t start, unsigned long count);
>  extern int lock_may_write(struct inode *, loff_t start, unsigned long count);
> +extern void locks_delete_block(struct file_lock *waiter);
>  extern void lock_flocks(void);
>  extern void unlock_flocks(void);
>  #else /* !CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING */
> @@ -1355,6 +1356,10 @@ static inline int lock_may_write(struct inode *inode, 
> loff_t start,
>       return 1;
>  }
>  
> +static inline void locks_delete_block(struct file_lock *waiter)
> +{
> +}
> +
>  static inline void lock_flocks(void)
>  {
>  }

Well, I'm still not fond of this code in general, but it seems to fix a
real-world problem, so...

Acked-by: Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
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