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Unverified Commit fd146410 authored by Jan Kara's avatar Jan Kara Committed by Christian Brauner
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fs: Avoid grabbing sb->s_umount under bdev->bd_holder_lock


The implementation of bdev holder operations such as fs_bdev_mark_dead()
and fs_bdev_sync() grab sb->s_umount semaphore under
bdev->bd_holder_lock. This is problematic because it leads to
disk->open_mutex -> sb->s_umount lock ordering which is counterintuitive
(usually we grab higher level (e.g. filesystem) locks first and lower
level (e.g. block layer) locks later) and indeed makes lockdep complain
about possible locking cycles whenever we open a block device while
holding sb->s_umount semaphore. Implement a function
bdev_super_lock_shared() which safely transitions from holding
bdev->bd_holder_lock to holding sb->s_umount on alive superblock without
introducing the problematic lock dependency. We use this function
fs_bdev_sync() and fs_bdev_mark_dead().

Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231018152924.3858-1-jack@suse.cz
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017184823.1383356-1-hch@lst.de


Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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