1. 07 Oct, 2012 2 commits
    • Mike Snitzer's avatar
      dm: handle requests beyond end of device instead of using BUG_ON · 7da444af
      Mike Snitzer authored
      commit ba1cbad9 upstream.
      
      The access beyond the end of device BUG_ON that was introduced to
      dm_request_fn via commit 29e4013d ("dm: implement
      REQ_FLUSH/FUA support for request-based dm") was an overly
      drastic (but simple) response to this situation.
      
      I have received a report that this BUG_ON was hit and now think
      it would be better to use dm_kill_unmapped_request() to fail the clone
      and original request with -EIO.
      
      map_request() will assign the valid target returned by
      dm_table_find_target to tio->ti.  But when the target
      isn't valid tio->ti is never assigned (because map_request isn't
      called); so add a check for tio->ti != NULL to dm_done().
      Reported-by: default avatarMike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      7da444af
    • Miklos Szeredi's avatar
      vfs: dcache: fix deadlock in tree traversal · d2212d27
      Miklos Szeredi authored
      commit 8110e16d upstream.
      
      IBM reported a deadlock in select_parent().  This was found to be caused
      by taking rename_lock when already locked when restarting the tree
      traversal.
      
      There are two cases when the traversal needs to be restarted:
      
       1) concurrent d_move(); this can only happen when not already locked,
          since taking rename_lock protects against concurrent d_move().
      
       2) racing with final d_put() on child just at the moment of ascending
          to parent; rename_lock doesn't protect against this rare race, so it
          can happen when already locked.
      
      Because of case 2, we need to be able to handle restarting the traversal
      when rename_lock is already held.  This patch fixes all three callers of
      try_to_ascend().
      
      IBM reported that the deadlock is gone with this patch.
      
      [ I rewrote the patch to be smaller and just do the "goto again" if the
        lock was already held, but credit goes to Miklos for the real work.
         - Linus ]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      d2212d27
  2. 02 Oct, 2012 38 commits