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authorDan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>2012-01-25 14:32:51 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-02-08 14:14:12 -0800
commit9256a4789be3dae37d00924c03546ba7958ea5a3 (patch)
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zcache: fix deadlock condition
I discovered this deadlock condition awhile ago working on RAMster but it affects zcache as well. The list spinlock must be locked prior to the page spinlock and released after. As a result, the page copy must also be done while the locks are held. Applies to 3.2. Konrad, please push (via GregKH?)... this is definitely a bug fix so need not be pushed during a -rc0 window. Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c7
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c b/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
index 642840c612ac..ae0ed82dd3cb 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
@@ -358,8 +358,8 @@ static struct zbud_hdr *zbud_create(uint16_t client_id, uint16_t pool_id,
if (unlikely(zbpg == NULL))
goto out;
/* ok, have a page, now compress the data before taking locks */
- spin_lock(&zbpg->lock);
spin_lock(&zbud_budlists_spinlock);
+ spin_lock(&zbpg->lock);
list_add_tail(&zbpg->bud_list, &zbud_unbuddied[nchunks].list);
zbud_unbuddied[nchunks].count++;
zh = &zbpg->buddy[0];
@@ -389,12 +389,11 @@ init_zh:
zh->oid = *oid;
zh->pool_id = pool_id;
zh->client_id = client_id;
- /* can wait to copy the data until the list locks are dropped */
- spin_unlock(&zbud_budlists_spinlock);
-
to = zbud_data(zh, size);
memcpy(to, cdata, size);
spin_unlock(&zbpg->lock);
+ spin_unlock(&zbud_budlists_spinlock);
+
zbud_cumul_chunk_counts[nchunks]++;
atomic_inc(&zcache_zbud_curr_zpages);
zcache_zbud_cumul_zpages++;