Re: Locking problem in overlayfs

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 02:05:18PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Using my testsuite, I see the attached moan from lockdep.  Unfortunately, it
> doesn't cause the testsuite to actually fail, so I'm going to have to manually
> try and isolate the failing test.
> 
> David
> 
> =============================================
> [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
> 3.18.0-rc2-fsdevel+ #910 Tainted: G        W     
> ---------------------------------------------
> run/2642 is trying to acquire lock:
>  (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#10/1){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81203d81>] ovl_cleanup_whiteouts+0x29/0xb4
> 
> but task is already holding lock:
>  (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#10/1){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8113abff>] lock_rename+0xb7/0xd7

Uh-oh.  We changed nesting late in the cycle and I didn't retest with lockdep.

And it's actually harmless, but AFAICS needs another level of nesting between
I_MUTEX_CHILD and I_MUTEX_NORMAL.

Will do a patch.

Thanks,
Miklos
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