Re: [PATCH] xfs: fix double mutex_lock() call in xfs_ioc_health_monitor()

[Carlos Maiolino]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2026 at 07:57:20AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2026 at 10:29:55PM +0900, Shigeru Yoshida wrote:
> > Commit 4870da4f49ae ("xfs: take hm->lock in xfs_ioc_health_monitor()
> > before insert") intended to protect the __xfs_healthmon_insert() call
> > with hm->lock, but the second mutex operation was accidentally left as
> > mutex_lock() instead of mutex_unlock(), causing self-deadlock. Change
> > the second call to mutex_unlock() as originally intended.
> > 
> > Fixes: 4870da4f49ae ("xfs: take hm->lock in xfs_ioc_health_monitor() before insert")
> > Signed-off-by: Shigeru Yoshida <syoshida@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The original patch I reviewed unlocked hm->lock correctly, not sure how
> it got corrupted by the tooling such that we need this.  I think cem
> fixed it already(?) but in case anyone needs it,

yes, it's fixed already... I had not a single clue what happened, I
haven't changed any patch manually on this batch, might have been the
tooling with some weird fuzz to fix context conflicts, but most likely I
screwed up somewhere.

Whatever the reason, this is on me for not having double-checked the
result once I pulled the patches in, so I'm really sorry for that.

And thanks again Yoshida for having spotted it.

> 
> Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> --D
> 
> > ---
> >  fs/xfs/xfs_healthmon.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_healthmon.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_healthmon.c
> > index 6dc3f69d6798..c3749675ef19 100644
> > --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_healthmon.c
> > +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_healthmon.c
> > @@ -1225,7 +1225,7 @@ xfs_ioc_health_monitor(
> >  	running_event->domain = XFS_HEALTHMON_MOUNT;
> >  	mutex_lock(&hm->lock);
> >  	__xfs_healthmon_insert(hm, INSERT_HEAD, running_event);
> > -	mutex_lock(&hm->lock);
> > +	mutex_unlock(&hm->lock);
> >  
> >  	/*
> >  	 * Preallocate the unmount event so that we can't fail to notify the
> > -- 
> > 2.55.0
> > 
> > 
>