[PATCH 3.10 10/51] nfs: fix dio deadlock when O_DIRECT flag is flipped

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Feb 03 2015 - 18:39:16 EST


3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Peng Tao <tao.peng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit ee8a1a8b160a87dc3a9c81a86796aa4db85ea815 upstream.

We only support swap file calling nfs_direct_IO. However, application
might be able to get to nfs_direct_IO if it toggles O_DIRECT flag
during IO and it can deadlock because we grab inode->i_mutex in
nfs_file_direct_write(). So return 0 for such case. Then the generic
layer will fall back to buffer IO.

Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <tao.peng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
fs/nfs/direct.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

--- a/fs/nfs/direct.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/direct.c
@@ -123,6 +123,12 @@ static inline int put_dreq(struct nfs_di
*/
ssize_t nfs_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov, loff_t pos, unsigned long nr_segs)
{
+ struct inode *inode = iocb->ki_filp->f_mapping->host;
+
+ /* we only support swap file calling nfs_direct_IO */
+ if (!IS_SWAPFILE(inode))
+ return 0;
+
#ifndef CONFIG_NFS_SWAP
dprintk("NFS: nfs_direct_IO (%s) off/no(%Ld/%lu) EINVAL\n",
iocb->ki_filp->f_path.dentry->d_name.name,


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