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authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>2017-04-30 17:33:26 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-05-25 14:17:57 +0200
commit37a8ef6db65c5b8184570a80e2f101f51db3bb72 (patch)
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parent17e9a9166dfd42fc6e9e3f01a3482b1f11c4aa7a (diff)
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dm bufio: avoid a possible ABBA deadlock
commit 1b0fb5a5b2dc0dddcfa575060441a7176ba7ac37 upstream. __get_memory_limit() tests if dm_bufio_cache_size changed and calls __cache_size_refresh() if it did. It takes dm_bufio_clients_lock while it already holds the client lock. However, lock ordering is violated because in cleanup_old_buffers() dm_bufio_clients_lock is taken before the client lock. This results in a possible deadlock and lockdep engine warning. Fix this deadlock by changing mutex_lock() to mutex_trylock(). If the lock can't be taken, it will be re-checked next time when a new buffer is allocated. Also add "unlikely" to the if condition, so that the optimizer assumes that the condition is false. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/dm-bufio.c9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
index 91fe43b98c96..9c5a0b4d5446 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
@@ -862,10 +862,11 @@ static void __get_memory_limit(struct dm_bufio_client *c,
{
unsigned long buffers;
- if (ACCESS_ONCE(dm_bufio_cache_size) != dm_bufio_cache_size_latch) {
- mutex_lock(&dm_bufio_clients_lock);
- __cache_size_refresh();
- mutex_unlock(&dm_bufio_clients_lock);
+ if (unlikely(ACCESS_ONCE(dm_bufio_cache_size) != dm_bufio_cache_size_latch)) {
+ if (mutex_trylock(&dm_bufio_clients_lock)) {
+ __cache_size_refresh();
+ mutex_unlock(&dm_bufio_clients_lock);
+ }
}
buffers = dm_bufio_cache_size_per_client >>