On 2021/12/10 12:30, Hyeong-Jun Kim wrote:
There is a potential deadlock between writeback process and a process
performing write_begin() or write_cache_pages() while trying to write
same compress file, but not compressable, as below:

[Process A] - doing checkpoint
[Process B]                     [Process C]
f2fs_write_cache_pages()
- lock_page() [all pages in cluster, 0-31]
- f2fs_write_multi_pages()
  - f2fs_write_raw_pages()
   - f2fs_write_single_data_page()
    - f2fs_do_write_data_page()
      - return -EAGAIN [f2fs_trylock_op() failed]
    - unlock_page(page) [e.g., page 0]
                                 - generic_perform_write()
                                  - f2fs_write_begin()
                                   - f2fs_prepare_compress_overwrite()
                                    - prepare_compress_overwrite()
                                     - lock_page() [e.g., page 0]
                                     - lock_page() [e.g., page 1]
    - lock_page(page) [e.g., page 0]

Since there is no compress process, it is no longer necessary to hold
locks on every pages in cluster within f2fs_write_raw_pages().

This patch changes f2fs_write_raw_pages() to release all locks first
and then perform write same as the non-compress file in
f2fs_write_cache_pages().

Fixes: 4c8ff7095bef ("f2fs: support data compression")
Signed-off-by: Hyeong-Jun Kim <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sungjong Seo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Youngjin Gil <[email protected]>

Looks good to me, thanks for Fengnan and Hyeong-Jun's report and Hyeong-Jun's
fixing. :)

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <[email protected]>

Thanks,


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