xfs: concurrent readdir hangs on data buffer locks
There's a three-process deadlock involving shared/exclusive barriers and inverted lock orders in the directory readdir implementation. It's a pre-existing problem with lock ordering, exposed by the VFS parallelisation code. process 1 process 2 process 3 --------- --------- --------- readdir iolock(shared) get_leaf_dents iterate entries ilock(shared) map, lock and read buffer iunlock(shared) process entries in buffer ..... readdir iolock(shared) get_leaf_dents iterate entries ilock(shared) map, lock buffer <blocks> finish ->iterate_shared file_accessed() ->update_time start transaction ilock(excl) <blocks> ..... finishes processing buffer get next buffer ilock(shared) <blocks> And that's the deadlock. Fix this by dropping the current buffer lock in process 1 before trying to map the next buffer. This means we keep the lock order of ilock -> buffer lock intact and hence will allow process 3 to make progress and drop it's ilock(shared) once it is done. Reported-by: Xiong Zhou <xzhou@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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