Commit b3bb8afd authored Jul 27, 2005 by Jeff Mahoney Committed by Linus Torvalds Jul 27, 2005

[PATCH] reiserfs: fix deadlock in inode creation failure path w/ default ACL



reiserfs_new_inode() can call iput() with the xattr lock held.  This will
cause a deadlock to occur when reiserfs_delete_xattrs() is called to clean
up.

The following patch releases the lock and reacquires it after the iput.
This is safe because interaction with xattrs is complete, and the relock is
just to balance out the release in the caller.

The locking needs some reworking to be more sane, but that's more intrusive
and I was just looking to fix this bug.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

parent c9b3ad67

fs/reiserfs/inode.c

+11 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1980,6 +1980,16 @@ int reiserfs_new_inode(struct reiserfs_transaction_handle *th,
		out_inserted_sd:
		inode->i_nlink = 0;
		th->t_trans_id = 0; /* so the caller can't use this handle later */

		/* If we were inheriting an ACL, we need to release the lock so that
		* iput doesn't deadlock in reiserfs_delete_xattrs. The locking
		* code really needs to be reworked, but this will take care of it
		* for now. -jeffm */
		if (REISERFS_I(dir)->i_acl_default) {
		reiserfs_write_unlock_xattrs(dir->i_sb);
		iput(inode);
		reiserfs_write_lock_xattrs(dir->i_sb);
		} else
		iput(inode);
		return err;
		}

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