dm bufio: avoid a possible ABBA deadlock
authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Sun, 30 Apr 2017 21:33:26 +0000 (17:33 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 25 May 2017 12:17:57 +0000 (14:17 +0200)
commit37a8ef6db65c5b8184570a80e2f101f51db3bb72
tree5af465f086da0f7c33fa3e2e07d4e18b5968d41f
parent17e9a9166dfd42fc6e9e3f01a3482b1f11c4aa7a
dm bufio: avoid a possible ABBA deadlock

commit 1b0fb5a5b2dc0dddcfa575060441a7176ba7ac37 upstream.

__get_memory_limit() tests if dm_bufio_cache_size changed and calls
__cache_size_refresh() if it did.  It takes dm_bufio_clients_lock while
it already holds the client lock.  However, lock ordering is violated
because in cleanup_old_buffers() dm_bufio_clients_lock is taken before
the client lock.

This results in a possible deadlock and lockdep engine warning.

Fix this deadlock by changing mutex_lock() to mutex_trylock().  If the
lock can't be taken, it will be re-checked next time when a new buffer
is allocated.

Also add "unlikely" to the if condition, so that the optimizer assumes
that the condition is false.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/md/dm-bufio.c