nfsd: don't hold i_mutex over userspace upcalls

We need information about exports when crossing mountpoints during
lookup or NFSv4 readdir.  If we don't already have that information
cached, we may have to ask (and wait for) rpc.mountd.

In both cases we currently hold the i_mutex on the parent of the
directory we're asking rpc.mountd about.  We've seen situations where
rpc.mountd performs some operation on that directory that tries to take
the i_mutex again, resulting in deadlock.

With some care, we may be able to avoid that in rpc.mountd.  But it
seems better just to avoid holding a mutex while waiting on userspace.

It appears that lookup_one_len is pretty much the only operation that
needs the i_mutex.  So we could just drop the i_mutex elsewhere and do
something like

	mutex_lock()
	lookup_one_len()
	mutex_unlock()

In many cases though the lookup would have been cached and not required
the i_mutex, so it's more efficient to create a lookup_one_len() variant
that only takes the i_mutex when necessary.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
index 994d66f..4212aaa 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
@@ -217,10 +217,16 @@ nfsd_lookup_dentry(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp,
 		host_err = PTR_ERR(dentry);
 		if (IS_ERR(dentry))
 			goto out_nfserr;
-		/*
-		 * check if we have crossed a mount point ...
-		 */
 		if (nfsd_mountpoint(dentry, exp)) {
+			/*
+			 * We don't need the i_mutex after all.  It's
+			 * still possible we could open this (regular
+			 * files can be mountpoints too), but the
+			 * i_mutex is just there to prevent renames of
+			 * something that we might be about to delegate,
+			 * and a mountpoint won't be renamed:
+			 */
+			fh_unlock(fhp);
 			if ((host_err = nfsd_cross_mnt(rqstp, &dentry, &exp))) {
 				dput(dentry);
 				goto out_nfserr;
@@ -1809,7 +1815,6 @@ static __be32 nfsd_buffered_readdir(struct file *file, nfsd_filldir_t func,
 	offset = *offsetp;
 
 	while (1) {
-		struct inode *dir_inode = file_inode(file);
 		unsigned int reclen;
 
 		cdp->err = nfserr_eof; /* will be cleared on successful read */
@@ -1828,15 +1833,6 @@ static __be32 nfsd_buffered_readdir(struct file *file, nfsd_filldir_t func,
 		if (!size)
 			break;
 
-		/*
-		 * Various filldir functions may end up calling back into
-		 * lookup_one_len() and the file system's ->lookup() method.
-		 * These expect i_mutex to be held, as it would within readdir.
-		 */
-		host_err = mutex_lock_killable(&dir_inode->i_mutex);
-		if (host_err)
-			break;
-
 		de = (struct buffered_dirent *)buf.dirent;
 		while (size > 0) {
 			offset = de->offset;
@@ -1853,7 +1849,6 @@ static __be32 nfsd_buffered_readdir(struct file *file, nfsd_filldir_t func,
 			size -= reclen;
 			de = (struct buffered_dirent *)((char *)de + reclen);
 		}
-		mutex_unlock(&dir_inode->i_mutex);
 		if (size > 0) /* We bailed out early */
 			break;