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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2016-08-11 12:38:55 -0400
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2017-06-05 21:16:49 +0100
commitb329791bdb180d5618ca8635bc481dc476a69589 (patch)
tree24ae9ea963e96a01945c39c366dc3feb989b6c9b /fs
parent5cf6cf8d961dd03b564c63d8aa2a56f5908ae038 (diff)
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ext4: avoid deadlock when expanding inode size
commit 2e81a4eeedcaa66e35f58b81e0755b87057ce392 upstream. When we need to move xattrs into external xattr block, we call ext4_xattr_block_set() from ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea(). That may end up calling ext4_mark_inode_dirty() again which will recurse back into the inode expansion code leading to deadlocks. Protect from recursion using EXT4_STATE_NO_EXPAND inode flag and move its management into ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea() since its manipulation is safe there (due to xattr_sem) from possible races with ext4_xattr_set_handle() which plays with it as well. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> [bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context[ Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/inode.c2
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/xattr.c19
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 898e9659ebf1..4a4a6c6c4b14 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -5062,8 +5062,6 @@ int ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode)
sbi->s_want_extra_isize,
iloc, handle);
if (ret) {
- ext4_set_inode_state(inode,
- EXT4_STATE_NO_EXPAND);
if (mnt_count !=
le16_to_cpu(sbi->s_es->s_mnt_count)) {
ext4_warning(inode->i_sb,
diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
index 2d1e5803839f..59935132fd53 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
@@ -1277,11 +1277,13 @@ int ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea(struct inode *inode, int new_extra_isize,
int s_min_extra_isize = le16_to_cpu(EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_es->s_min_extra_isize);
down_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->xattr_sem);
+ /*
+ * Set EXT4_STATE_NO_EXPAND to avoid recursion when marking inode dirty
+ */
+ ext4_set_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_NO_EXPAND);
retry:
- if (EXT4_I(inode)->i_extra_isize >= new_extra_isize) {
- up_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->xattr_sem);
- return 0;
- }
+ if (EXT4_I(inode)->i_extra_isize >= new_extra_isize)
+ goto out;
header = IHDR(inode, raw_inode);
entry = IFIRST(header);
@@ -1306,8 +1308,7 @@ retry:
(void *)header, total_ino,
inode->i_sb->s_blocksize);
EXT4_I(inode)->i_extra_isize = new_extra_isize;
- error = 0;
- goto cleanup;
+ goto out;
}
/*
@@ -1467,6 +1468,8 @@ retry:
kfree(bs);
}
brelse(bh);
+out:
+ ext4_clear_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_NO_EXPAND);
up_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->xattr_sem);
return 0;
@@ -1478,6 +1481,10 @@ cleanup:
kfree(is);
kfree(bs);
brelse(bh);
+ /*
+ * We deliberately leave EXT4_STATE_NO_EXPAND set here since inode
+ * size expansion failed.
+ */
up_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->xattr_sem);
return error;
}