Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Fix up the NFS mmap code

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Al Viro wrote:
> 
> Well, sure - it steps on i_mutex-before-mmmap_sem first from ls somewhere and
> records the ordering for posterity.  Then NFS steps into mmap() (on a
> different inode) and gets conflicting ordering.

Look closer: the inodes for directories and for non-directories have 
i_mutex in different lockdep classes.

So that "on a different inode" thing should have made it a non-issue, 
since there is no actual chain back. There is "mmap_sem -> 
i_mutex_regular_file" (for mmap) and there is "i_mutex_directory -> 
mmap_sem" (for filldir), but that isn't an ABBA.

The problem _seems_ to be (if I read Andi's chain correctly) that a 
directory hasn't gone through the i_mutex_dir_key change, so filldir ends 
up being counted against the default i_mutex_key.


		Linus
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