[PATCH] mm, dax: fix DAX deadlocks (COW fault)

From: Yigal Korman
Date: Mon Nov 16 2015 - 07:09:52 EST


DAX handling of COW faults has wrong locking sequence:
dax_fault does i_mmap_lock_read
do_cow_fault does i_mmap_unlock_write

Ross's commit[1] missed a fix[2] that Kirill added to Matthew's
commit[3].

Original COW locking logic was introduced by Matthew here[4].

This should be applied to v4.3 as well.

[1] 0f90cc6609c7 mm, dax: fix DAX deadlocks
[2] 52a2b53ffde6 mm, dax: use i_mmap_unlock_write() in do_cow_fault()
[3] 843172978bb9 dax: fix race between simultaneous faults
[4] 2e4cdab0584f mm: allow page fault handlers to perform the COW

Signed-off-by: Yigal Korman <yigal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Cc: Stable Tree <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index c716913..e5071af 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3015,9 +3015,9 @@ static int do_cow_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
} else {
/*
* The fault handler has no page to lock, so it holds
- * i_mmap_lock for write to protect against truncate.
+ * i_mmap_lock for read to protect against truncate.
*/
- i_mmap_unlock_write(vma->vm_file->f_mapping);
+ i_mmap_unlock_read(vma->vm_file->f_mapping);
}
goto uncharge_out;
}
@@ -3031,9 +3031,9 @@ static int do_cow_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
} else {
/*
* The fault handler has no page to lock, so it holds
- * i_mmap_lock for write to protect against truncate.
+ * i_mmap_lock for read to protect against truncate.
*/
- i_mmap_unlock_write(vma->vm_file->f_mapping);
+ i_mmap_unlock_read(vma->vm_file->f_mapping);
}
return ret;
uncharge_out:
--
1.9.3

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