From 0309f02d8e1b68811e513bdd06015672d0696af5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Ellerman Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:33:22 +0200 Subject: [POWERPC] spufs: fix deadlock in spu_create error path spufs_rmdir tries to acquire the spufs root i_mutex, which is already held by spufs_create_thread. This was tracked as Bug #H9512. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras --- arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c | 26 +++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c index d9554199afa7..fed511a2b17f 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c @@ -157,20 +157,12 @@ static void spufs_prune_dir(struct dentry *dir) mutex_unlock(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex); } +/* Caller must hold root->i_mutex */ static int spufs_rmdir(struct inode *root, struct dentry *dir_dentry) { - struct spu_context *ctx; - /* remove all entries */ - mutex_lock(&root->i_mutex); spufs_prune_dir(dir_dentry); - mutex_unlock(&root->i_mutex); - /* We have to give up the mm_struct */ - ctx = SPUFS_I(dir_dentry->d_inode)->i_ctx; - spu_forget(ctx); - - /* XXX Do we need to hold i_mutex here ? */ return simple_rmdir(root, dir_dentry); } @@ -199,16 +191,23 @@ out: static int spufs_dir_close(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) { + struct spu_context *ctx; struct inode *dir; struct dentry *dentry; int ret; dentry = file->f_dentry; dir = dentry->d_parent->d_inode; + ctx = SPUFS_I(dentry->d_inode)->i_ctx; + mutex_lock(&dir->i_mutex); ret = spufs_rmdir(dir, dentry); + mutex_unlock(&dir->i_mutex); WARN_ON(ret); + /* We have to give up the mm_struct */ + spu_forget(ctx); + return dcache_dir_close(inode, file); } @@ -324,8 +323,13 @@ long spufs_create_thread(struct nameidata *nd, * in error path of *_open(). */ ret = spufs_context_open(dget(dentry), mntget(nd->mnt)); - if (ret < 0) - spufs_rmdir(nd->dentry->d_inode, dentry); + if (ret < 0) { + WARN_ON(spufs_rmdir(nd->dentry->d_inode, dentry)); + mutex_unlock(&nd->dentry->d_inode->i_mutex); + spu_forget(SPUFS_I(dentry->d_inode)->i_ctx); + dput(dentry); + goto out; + } out_dput: dput(dentry); -- cgit v1.2.2