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Commit c217649b authored by Mike Snitzer's avatar Mike Snitzer Committed by Alasdair G Kergon
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dm: dont take i_mutex to change device size

No longer needlessly hold md->bdev->bd_inode->i_mutex when changing the
size of a DM device.  This additional locking is unnecessary because
i_size_write() is already protected by the existing critical section in
dm_swap_table().  DM already has a reference on md->bdev so the
associated bd_inode may be changed without lifetime concerns.

A negative side-effect of having held md->bdev->bd_inode->i_mutex was
that a concurrent DM device resize and flush (via fsync) would deadlock.
Dropping md->bdev->bd_inode->i_mutex eliminates this potential for
deadlock.  The following reproducer no longer deadlocks:
  https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2009-July/msg00284.html



Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
parent 581548db
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