[PATCH 4/6] leases: break read leases on rename

Mimi Zohar zohar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Sep 22 11:17:49 MDT 2011


On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 10:58 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: 
> To rely on the i_mutex for exclusion between setlease and rename, we
> need rename to take the i_mutex on the source as well as on any possible
> target.
> 
> I suspect this is deadlock-free, but I need to think this proof through
> again.  And I'm not sure what to do about lockdep.

Not sure that I will be of any help, but how about posting the lockdep
messages?

thanks,

Mimi

> 
> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields at redhat.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking |   11 ++++++-----
>  fs/namei.c                                  |   17 +++++++++++++++--
>  2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking b/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking
> index ff7b611..c51cbed 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking
> @@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ kinds of locks - per-inode (->i_mutex) and per-filesystem
>  locks victim and calls the method.
> 
>  4) rename() that is _not_ cross-directory.  Locking rules: caller locks
> -the parent, finds source and target, if target already exists - locks it
> -and then calls the method.
> +the parent, finds source and target, locks source, also locks target if
> +it already exists, and then calls the method.
> 
>  5) link creation.  Locking rules:
>  	* lock parent
> @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ rules:
>  		fail with -ENOTEMPTY
>  	* if new parent is equal to or is a descendent of source
>  		fail with -ELOOP
> +	* lock source if it is not a directory.
>  	* if target exists - lock it.
>  	* call the method.
> 
> @@ -56,9 +57,9 @@ objects - A < B iff A is an ancestor of B.
>      renames will be blocked on filesystem lock and we don't start changing
>      the order until we had acquired all locks).
> 
> -(3) any operation holds at most one lock on non-directory object and
> -    that lock is acquired after all other locks.  (Proof: see descriptions
> -    of operations).
> +(3) locks on non-directory objects are acquired only after taking locks
> +    on their parents (which remain their parents by (1) and (2)).
> +    (Proof: see descriptions of operations).
> 
>  	Now consider the minimal deadlock.  Each process is blocked on
>  attempt to acquire some lock and already holds at least one lock.  Let's
> diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
> index 5c78f72..c0220f7 100644
> --- a/fs/namei.c
> +++ b/fs/namei.c
> @@ -3058,6 +3058,7 @@ static int vfs_rename_other(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry,
>  			    struct inode *new_dir, struct dentry *new_dentry)
>  {
>  	struct inode *target = new_dentry->d_inode;
> +	struct inode *source = old_dentry->d_inode;
>  	int error;
> 
>  	error = security_inode_rename(old_dir, old_dentry, new_dir, new_dentry);
> @@ -3065,13 +3066,23 @@ static int vfs_rename_other(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry,
>  		return error;
> 
>  	dget(new_dentry);
> -	if (target)
> +	mutex_lock(&source->i_mutex);
> +	error = break_lease(source, O_WRONLY);
> +	if (error)
> +		goto out_unlock_source;
> +	if (target) {
>  		mutex_lock(&target->i_mutex);
> -
> +		error = break_lease(target, O_WRONLY);
> +		if (error)
> +			goto out;
> +	}
>  	error = -EBUSY;
>  	if (d_mountpoint(old_dentry)||d_mountpoint(new_dentry))
>  		goto out;
> 
> +	error = break_lease(old_dentry->d_inode, O_WRONLY);
> +	if (error)
> +		goto out;
>  	error = old_dir->i_op->rename(old_dir, old_dentry, new_dir, new_dentry);
>  	if (error)
>  		goto out;
> @@ -3083,6 +3094,8 @@ static int vfs_rename_other(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry,
>  out:
>  	if (target)
>  		mutex_unlock(&target->i_mutex);
> +out_unlock_source:
> +	mutex_unlock(&source->i_mutex);
>  	dput(new_dentry);
>  	return error;
>  }



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