This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
block: kill loop_mutex
to the 2.6.37-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
block-kill-loop_mutex.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.37 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From fd51469fb68b987032e46297e0a4fe9020063c20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Petr Uzel <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 11:48:50 -0500
Subject: block: kill loop_mutex
From: Petr Uzel <[email protected]>
commit fd51469fb68b987032e46297e0a4fe9020063c20 upstream.
Following steps lead to deadlock in kernel:
dd if=/dev/zero of=img bs=512 count=1000
losetup -f img
mkfs.ext2 /dev/loop0
mount -t ext2 -o loop /dev/loop0 mnt
umount mnt/
Stacktrace:
[<c102ec04>] irq_exit+0x36/0x59
[<c101502c>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6b/0x75
[<c127f639>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x31/0x38
[<c101df88>] mutex_spin_on_owner+0x54/0x5b
[<fe2250e9>] lo_release+0x12/0x67 [loop]
[<c10c4eae>] __blkdev_put+0x7c/0x10c
[<c10a4da5>] fput+0xd5/0x1aa
[<fe2250cf>] loop_clr_fd+0x1a9/0x1b1 [loop]
[<fe225110>] lo_release+0x39/0x67 [loop]
[<c10c4eae>] __blkdev_put+0x7c/0x10c
[<c10a59d9>] deactivate_locked_super+0x17/0x36
[<c10b6f37>] sys_umount+0x27e/0x2a5
[<c10b6f69>] sys_oldumount+0xb/0xe
[<c1002897>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x26
[<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
Regression since 2a48fc0ab24241755dc9, which introduced the private
loop_mutex as part of the BKL removal process.
As per [1], the mutex can be safely removed.
[1] http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1341930
Addresses: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=669394
Addresses: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29172
Signed-off-by: Petr Uzel <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/block/loop.c | 5 -----
1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -78,7 +78,6 @@
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
-static DEFINE_MUTEX(loop_mutex);
static LIST_HEAD(loop_devices);
static DEFINE_MUTEX(loop_devices_mutex);
@@ -1505,11 +1504,9 @@ static int lo_open(struct block_device *
{
struct loop_device *lo = bdev->bd_disk->private_data;
- mutex_lock(&loop_mutex);
mutex_lock(&lo->lo_ctl_mutex);
lo->lo_refcnt++;
mutex_unlock(&lo->lo_ctl_mutex);
- mutex_unlock(&loop_mutex);
return 0;
}
@@ -1519,7 +1516,6 @@ static int lo_release(struct gendisk *di
struct loop_device *lo = disk->private_data;
int err;
- mutex_lock(&loop_mutex);
mutex_lock(&lo->lo_ctl_mutex);
if (--lo->lo_refcnt)
@@ -1544,7 +1540,6 @@ static int lo_release(struct gendisk *di
out:
mutex_unlock(&lo->lo_ctl_mutex);
out_unlocked:
- mutex_unlock(&loop_mutex);
return 0;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-2.6.37/block-kill-loop_mutex.patch
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