From 62752ee198dca9209b7dee504763e51b11e9e0ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Fasheh Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:31:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Take i_mutex in splice_from_pipe() The splice_actor may be calling ->prepare_write() and ->commit_write(). We want i_mutex on the inode being written to before calling those so that we don't race i_size changes. The double locking behavior is done elsewhere in splice.c, and if we eventually want _nolock variants of generic_file_splice_write(), fs modules might have to replicate the nasty locking code. We introduce inode_double_lock() and inode_double_unlock() to consolidate the locking rules into one set of functions. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- fs/splice.c | 24 +++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/splice.c') diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c index a567010b62ac..c1072b6940c3 100644 --- a/fs/splice.c +++ b/fs/splice.c @@ -713,6 +713,7 @@ ssize_t splice_from_pipe(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct file *out, { int ret, do_wakeup, err; struct splice_desc sd; + struct inode *inode = out->f_mapping->host; ret = 0; do_wakeup = 0; @@ -722,8 +723,13 @@ ssize_t splice_from_pipe(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct file *out, sd.file = out; sd.pos = *ppos; - if (pipe->inode) - mutex_lock(&pipe->inode->i_mutex); + /* + * The actor worker might be calling ->prepare_write and + * ->commit_write. Most of the time, these expect i_mutex to + * be held. Since this may result in an ABBA deadlock with + * pipe->inode, we have to order lock acquiry here. + */ + inode_double_lock(inode, pipe->inode); for (;;) { if (pipe->nrbufs) { @@ -797,8 +803,7 @@ ssize_t splice_from_pipe(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct file *out, pipe_wait(pipe); } - if (pipe->inode) - mutex_unlock(&pipe->inode->i_mutex); + inode_double_unlock(inode, pipe->inode); if (do_wakeup) { smp_mb(); @@ -1400,13 +1405,7 @@ static int link_pipe(struct pipe_inode_info *ipipe, * grabbing by inode address. Otherwise two different processes * could deadlock (one doing tee from A -> B, the other from B -> A). */ - if (ipipe->inode < opipe->inode) { - mutex_lock_nested(&ipipe->inode->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_PARENT); - mutex_lock_nested(&opipe->inode->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_CHILD); - } else { - mutex_lock_nested(&opipe->inode->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_PARENT); - mutex_lock_nested(&ipipe->inode->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_CHILD); - } + inode_double_lock(ipipe->inode, opipe->inode); do { if (!opipe->readers) { @@ -1450,8 +1449,7 @@ static int link_pipe(struct pipe_inode_info *ipipe, i++; } while (len); - mutex_unlock(&ipipe->inode->i_mutex); - mutex_unlock(&opipe->inode->i_mutex); + inode_double_unlock(ipipe->inode, opipe->inode); /* * If we put data in the output pipe, wakeup any potential readers. -- cgit v1.2.3