NFS: Prevent a deadlock in the new writeback code

We have to unlock the nfs_page before we call nfs_end_page_writeback
to avoid races with functions that expect the page to be unlocked
when PG_locked and PG_writeback are not set.
The problem is that nfs_unlock_request also releases the nfs_page,
causing a deadlock if the release of the nfs_open_context
triggers an iput() while the PG_writeback flag is still set...

The solution is to separate the unlocking and release of the nfs_page,
so that we can do the former before nfs_end_page_writeback and the
latter after.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>

2 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfs/pagelist.c b/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
index 33a21ca9b84b..69146f386989 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
@@ -128,10 +128,10 @@ nfs_create_request(struct nfs_open_context *ctx, struct inode *inode,
 }
 
 /**
- * nfs_unlock_request - Unlock request and wake up sleepers.
+ * nfs_unlock_request_dont_release - Unlock request and wake up sleepers.
  * @req:
  */
-void nfs_unlock_request(struct nfs_page *req)
+void nfs_unlock_request_dont_release(struct nfs_page *req)
 {
         if (!NFS_WBACK_BUSY(req)) {
                 printk(KERN_ERR "NFS: Invalid unlock attempted\n");
@@ -141,6 +141,14 @@ void nfs_unlock_request(struct nfs_page *req)
         clear_bit(PG_BUSY, &req->wb_flags);
         smp_mb__after_clear_bit();
         wake_up_bit(&req->wb_flags, PG_BUSY);
+}
+
+/**
+ * nfs_unlock_request - Unlock request and release the nfs_page
+ */
+void nfs_unlock_request(struct nfs_page *req)
+{
+        nfs_unlock_request_dont_release(req);
         nfs_release_request(req);
 }
 
diff --git a/fs/nfs/write.c b/fs/nfs/write.c
index 6f263daac748..fd36b31ee72e 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/write.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/write.c
@@ -628,8 +628,9 @@ static void nfs_write_completion(struct nfs_pgio_header *hdr)
 remove_req:
                 nfs_inode_remove_request(req);
 next:
-                nfs_unlock_request(req);
+                nfs_unlock_request_dont_release(req);
                 nfs_end_page_writeback(page);
+                nfs_release_request(req);
         }
 out:
         hdr->release(hdr);
@@ -1042,8 +1043,9 @@ static void nfs_redirty_request(struct nfs_page *req)
         struct page *page = req->wb_page;
 
         nfs_mark_request_dirty(req);
-        nfs_unlock_request(req);
+        nfs_unlock_request_dont_release(req);
         nfs_end_page_writeback(page);
+        nfs_release_request(req);
 }
 
 static void nfs_async_write_error(struct list_head *head)