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Commit 32c37730 authored by Jan Kara's avatar Jan Kara Committed by Linus Torvalds
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ext4: fix deadlock in ext4_remount() and orphan list handling



ext4_orphan_add() and ext4_orphan_del() functions lock sb->s_lock with a
transaction started with ext4_mark_recovery_complete() waits for a transaction
holding sb->s_lock, thus leading to a possible deadlock.  At the moment we
call ext4_mark_recovery_complete() from ext4_remount() we have done all the
work needed for remounting and thus we are safe to drop sb->s_lock before we
wait for transactions to commit.  Note that at this moment we are still
guarded by s_umount lock against other remounts/umounts.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 030703e4
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