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author | Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> | 2006-10-17 00:10:06 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-10-17 08:18:45 -0700 |
commit | 9ffbb9162312fd8113037cb3d94f787f06bbfa9a (patch) | |
tree | a8194bb542dcda56271b44d7de23f2a72ecac900 /arch/powerpc/boot/addnote.c | |
parent | 48d1a7ea6373337985f27dc1c707649469df5827 (diff) |
[PATCH] fuse: fix hang on SMP
Fuse didn't always call i_size_write() with i_mutex held which caused rare
hangs on SMP/32bit. This bug has been present since fuse-2.2, well before
being merged into mainline.
The simplest solution is to protect i_size_write() with the per-connection
spinlock. Using i_mutex for this purpose would require some restructuring of
the code and I'm not even sure it's always safe to acquire i_mutex in all
places i_size needs to be set.
Since most of vmtruncate is already duplicated for other reasons, duplicate
the remaining part as well, making all i_size_write() calls internal to fuse.
Using i_size_write() was unnecessary in fuse_init_inode(), since this function
is only called on a newly created locked inode.
Reported by a few people over the years, but special thanks to Dana Henriksen
who was persistent enough in helping me debug it.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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