circular locking dependency found in QUOTA OFF

i_mutex on quota files is special. Unlike i_mutexes for other inodes it is acquired under dqonoff_mutex. Tell lockdep about this lock ranking. Also comment and code in quota_sync_sb() seem to be bogus (as i_mutex for quota file can be acquired under dqonoff_mutex). Move truncate_inode_pages() call under dqonoff_mutex and save some problems with races... Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
mna · May 17, 2007 · 7925409 · 7925409
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diff --git a/fs/dquot.c b/fs/dquot.c
@@ -1421,7 +1421,7 @@ int vfs_quota_off(struct super_block *sb, int type)
 			/* If quota was reenabled in the meantime, we have
 			 * nothing to do */
 			if (!sb_has_quota_enabled(sb, cnt)) {
-				mutex_lock(&toputinode[cnt]->i_mutex);
+				mutex_lock_nested(&toputinode[cnt]->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_QUOTA);
 				toputinode[cnt]->i_flags &= ~(S_IMMUTABLE |
 				  S_NOATIME | S_NOQUOTA);
 				truncate_inode_pages(&toputinode[cnt]->i_data, 0);

diff --git a/fs/quota.c b/fs/quota.c
@@ -157,7 +157,6 @@ static int check_quotactl_valid(struct super_block *sb, int type, int cmd, qid_t
 static void quota_sync_sb(struct super_block *sb, int type)
 {
 	int cnt;
-	struct inode *discard[MAXQUOTAS];
 
 	sb->s_qcop->quota_sync(sb, type);
 	/* This is not very clever (and fast) but currently I don't know about
@@ -167,29 +166,21 @@ static void quota_sync_sb(struct super_block *sb, int type)
 		sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, 1);
 	sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev);
 
-	/* Now when everything is written we can discard the pagecache so
-	 * that userspace sees the changes. We need i_mutex and so we could
-	 * not do it inside dqonoff_mutex. Moreover we need to be carefull
-	 * about races with quotaoff() (that is the reason why we have own
-	 * reference to inode). */
+	/*
+	 * Now when everything is written we can discard the pagecache so
+	 * that userspace sees the changes.
+	 */
 	mutex_lock(&sb_dqopt(sb)->dqonoff_mutex);
 	for (cnt = 0; cnt < MAXQUOTAS; cnt++) {
-		discard[cnt] = NULL;
 		if (type != -1 && cnt != type)
 			continue;
 		if (!sb_has_quota_enabled(sb, cnt))
 			continue;
-		discard[cnt] = igrab(sb_dqopt(sb)->files[cnt]);
+		mutex_lock_nested(&sb_dqopt(sb)->files[cnt]->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_QUOTA);
+		truncate_inode_pages(&sb_dqopt(sb)->files[cnt]->i_data, 0);
+		mutex_unlock(&sb_dqopt(sb)->files[cnt]->i_mutex);
 	}
 	mutex_unlock(&sb_dqopt(sb)->dqonoff_mutex);
-	for (cnt = 0; cnt < MAXQUOTAS; cnt++) {
-		if (discard[cnt]) {
-			mutex_lock(&discard[cnt]->i_mutex);
-			truncate_inode_pages(&discard[cnt]->i_data, 0);
-			mutex_unlock(&discard[cnt]->i_mutex);
-			iput(discard[cnt]);
-		}
-	}
 }
 
 void sync_dquots(struct super_block *sb, int type)