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    [GFS2] Alternate gfs2_iget to avoid looking up inodes being freed · 7a9f53b3
    Benjamin Marzinski authored
    
    
    There is a possible deadlock between two processes on the same node, where one
    process is deleting an inode, and another process is looking for allocated but
    unused inodes to delete in order to create more space.
    
    process A does an iput() on inode X, and it's i_count drops to 0. This causes
    iput_final() to be called, which puts an inode into state I_FREEING at
    generic_delete_inode(). There no point between when iput_final() is called, and
    when I_FREEING is set where GFS2 could acquire any glocks. Once I_FREEING is
    set, no other process on that node can successfully look up that inode until
    the delete finishes.
    
    process B locks the the resource group for the same inode in get_local_rgrp(),
    which is called by gfs2_inplace_reserve_i()
    
    process A tries to lock the resource group for the inode in
    gfs2_dinode_dealloc(), but it's already locked by process B
    
    process B waits in find_inode for the inode to have the I_FREEING state cleared.
    
    Deadlock.
    
    This patch solves the problem by adding an alternative to gfs2_iget(),
    gfs2_iget_skip(), that simply skips any inodes that are in the I_FREEING
    state.o The alternate test function is just like the original one, except that
    it fails if the inode is being freed, and sets a skipped flag. The alternate
    set function is just like the original, except that it fails if the skipped
    flag is set. Only try_rgrp_unlink() calls gfs2_iget_skip() instead of
    gfs2_iget().
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin E. Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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