Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:30:05 -0400 (EDT) | From | Mikulas Patocka <> | Subject | [PATCH] deadlock when swapping to FAT |
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Hi
swapon will deadlock when an attempt to swap to a file on FAT filesystem is made. swapon holds i_mutex and FAT bmap is attempting to take it again.
This bug was introduced somewhere between 2.6.27 and 2.6.28.
No other filesystem is taking i_mutex in bmap, so I removed it as well.
Note that there are many other cases where bmap can race with truncate in almost all the filesystems. They don't impose an immediate threat because bmap can be only called by root. These problems should be solved in a generic way, not in individual filesystems.
Mikulas
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
--- fs/fat/inode.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6.29-rc7-devel/fs/fat/inode.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.29-rc7-devel.orig/fs/fat/inode.c 2009-03-10 21:17:22.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.29-rc7-devel/fs/fat/inode.c 2009-03-11 22:52:38.000000000 +0100 @@ -202,9 +202,7 @@ static sector_t _fat_bmap(struct address sector_t blocknr; /* fat_get_cluster() assumes the requested blocknr isn't truncated. */ - mutex_lock(&mapping->host->i_mutex); blocknr = generic_block_bmap(mapping, block, fat_get_block); - mutex_unlock(&mapping->host->i_mutex); return blocknr; }
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