When a CIFS filesystem is mounted with the forcemand option and the
following command is run on it, lockdep warns about a circular locking
dependency between CifsInodeInfo::lock_sem and the inode lock.
while echo foo > hello; do :; done & while touch -c hello; do :; done
cifs_writev() takes the locks in the wrong order, but note that we can't
only flip the order around because it releases the inode lock before the
call to generic_write_sync() while it holds the lock_sem across that
call.
But, AFAICS, there is no need to hold the CifsInodeInfo::lock_sem across
the generic_write_sync() call either, so we can release both the locks
before generic_write_sync(), and change the order.
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WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
4.12.0-rc7+ #9 Not tainted
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touch/487 is trying to acquire lock:
(&cifsi->lock_sem){++++..}, at: cifsFileInfo_put+0x88f/0x16a0
but task is already holding lock:
(&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#11){+.+.+.}, at: utimes_common+0x3ad/0x870
which lock already depends on the new lock.
the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
Fixes: 19dfc1f5f2ef03a52 ("cifs: fix the race in cifs_writev()") Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabinv@axis.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com> Acked-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@microsoft.com>