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Commit 73ce8355 authored by Miklos Szeredi's avatar Miklos Szeredi
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[fuse] fix deadlock between fuse_put_super() and request_end()



A deadlock was possible, when the last reference to the superblock was
held due to a background request containing a file reference.

Releasing the file would release the vfsmount which in turn would
release the superblock.  Since sbput_sem is held during the fput() and
fuse_put_super() tries to acquire this same semaphore, a deadlock
results.

The chosen soltuion is to get rid of sbput_sem, and instead use the
spinlock to ensure the referenced inodes/file are released only once.
Since the actual release may sleep, defer these outside the locked
region, but using local variables instead of the structure members.

This is a much more rubust solution.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
parent 2514395e
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