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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ntfs/mft.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ntfs/mft.c | 29 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/mft.c b/fs/ntfs/mft.c index 3d0ba8e60adc..ac9ff39aa834 100644 --- a/fs/ntfs/mft.c +++ b/fs/ntfs/mft.c @@ -948,20 +948,23 @@ BOOL ntfs_may_write_mft_record(ntfs_volume *vol, const unsigned long mft_no, na.name_len = 0; na.type = AT_UNUSED; /* - * For inode 0, i.e. $MFT itself, we cannot use ilookup5() from here or - * we deadlock because the inode is already locked by the kernel - * (fs/fs-writeback.c::__sync_single_inode()) and ilookup5() waits - * until the inode is unlocked before returning it and it never gets - * unlocked because ntfs_should_write_mft_record() never returns. )-: - * Fortunately, we have inode 0 pinned in icache for the duration of - * the mount so we can access it directly. + * Optimize inode 0, i.e. $MFT itself, since we have it in memory and + * we get here for it rather often. */ if (!mft_no) { /* Balance the below iput(). */ vi = igrab(mft_vi); BUG_ON(vi != mft_vi); - } else - vi = ilookup5(sb, mft_no, (test_t)ntfs_test_inode, &na); + } else { + /* + * Have to use ilookup5_nowait() since ilookup5() waits for the + * inode lock which causes ntfs to deadlock when a concurrent + * inode write via the inode dirty code paths and the page + * dirty code path of the inode dirty code path when writing + * $MFT occurs. + */ + vi = ilookup5_nowait(sb, mft_no, (test_t)ntfs_test_inode, &na); + } if (vi) { ntfs_debug("Base inode 0x%lx is in icache.", mft_no); /* The inode is in icache. */ @@ -1016,7 +1019,13 @@ BOOL ntfs_may_write_mft_record(ntfs_volume *vol, const unsigned long mft_no, na.mft_no = MREF_LE(m->base_mft_record); ntfs_debug("Mft record 0x%lx is an extent record. Looking for base " "inode 0x%lx in icache.", mft_no, na.mft_no); - vi = ilookup5(sb, na.mft_no, (test_t)ntfs_test_inode, &na); + if (!na.mft_no) { + /* Balance the below iput(). */ + vi = igrab(mft_vi); + BUG_ON(vi != mft_vi); + } else + vi = ilookup5_nowait(sb, na.mft_no, (test_t)ntfs_test_inode, + &na); if (!vi) { /* * The base inode is not in icache, write this extent mft |