From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:13:10 +0000 (+0100) Subject: reiserfs: Fix softlockup while waiting on an inode X-Git-Tag: Ubuntu-5.13.0-19.19~32826^2 X-Git-Url: https://git.proxmox.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=175359f89df39f4faed663c8cfd6ee0222d2fa1e;p=mirror_ubuntu-jammy-kernel.git reiserfs: Fix softlockup while waiting on an inode When we wait for an inode through reiserfs_iget(), we hold the reiserfs lock. And waiting for an inode may imply waiting for its writeback. But the inode writeback path may also require the reiserfs lock, which leads to a deadlock. We just need to release the reiserfs lock from reiserfs_iget() to fix this. Reported-by: Alexander Beregalov Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Tested-by: Christian Kujau Cc: Chris Mason --- diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/inode.c b/fs/reiserfs/inode.c index 9087b10209e6..2df0f5c7c60b 100644 --- a/fs/reiserfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/reiserfs/inode.c @@ -1497,9 +1497,11 @@ struct inode *reiserfs_iget(struct super_block *s, const struct cpu_key *key) args.objectid = key->on_disk_key.k_objectid; args.dirid = key->on_disk_key.k_dir_id; + reiserfs_write_unlock(s); inode = iget5_locked(s, key->on_disk_key.k_objectid, reiserfs_find_actor, reiserfs_init_locked_inode, (void *)(&args)); + reiserfs_write_lock(s); if (!inode) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);