ext4: fix possible recursive locking warning in EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT
If CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING is enabled, the double_down_write_data_sem()
will trigger a false-positive warning of a recursive lock. Since we
take i_data_sem for the two inodes ordered by their inode numbers,
this isn't a problem. Use of down_write_nested() will notify the lock
dependency checker machinery that there is no problem here.
This problem was reported by Brian Rogers:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=125115356928011&w=1
Reported-by: Brian Rogers <brian@xyzw.org>
Signed-off-by: Akira Fujita <a-fujita@rs.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
diff --git a/fs/ext4/move_extent.c b/fs/ext4/move_extent.c
index a7410b3..2ca6aa3 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/move_extent.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/move_extent.c
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@
}
down_write(&EXT4_I(first)->i_data_sem);
- down_write(&EXT4_I(second)->i_data_sem);
+ down_write_nested(&EXT4_I(second)->i_data_sem, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
}
/**