Message ID | 20190609123831.11489-1-kirr@nexedi.com (mailing list archive) |
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Headers | show |
Series | Fix FUSE read/write deadlock on stream-like files | expand |
On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 12:39:08PM +0000, Kirill Smelkov wrote: > Hello stable team, > > Please consider applying the following 2 patches to Linux-4.14 stable > tree. The patches fix regression introduced in 3.14 where both read and > write started to run under lock taken, which resulted in FUSE (and many > other drivers) deadlocks for cases where stream-like files are used with > read and write being run simultaneously. > > Please see complete problem description in upstream commit 10dce8af3422 > ("fs: stream_open - opener for stream-like files so that read and write > can run simultaneously without deadlock"). > > The actual FUSE fix (upstream commit bbd84f33652f "fuse: Add > FOPEN_STREAM to use stream_open()") was merged into 5.2 with `Cc: > stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.14+` mark and is already included into 5.1, > 5.0 and 4.19 stable trees. However for some reason it is not (yet ?) > included into 4.14, 4.9, 4.4, 3.18 and 3.16 trees. > > The patches fix a real problem into which my FUSE filesystem ran, and > which also likely affects OSSPD (full details are in the patches > description). Please consider including the fixes into 4.14 (as well as > into earlier stable trees - I will send corresponding series separately - > - one per tree). Many thanks for these. I've queued up all but the 3.16 patches (those are for Ben). I hadn't done the backport yet, as I didn't know how "severe" this was, and didn't have the time to do it. Thanks for making it easy :) greg k-h
On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 06:38:26PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 12:39:08PM +0000, Kirill Smelkov wrote: > > Hello stable team, > > > > Please consider applying the following 2 patches to Linux-4.14 stable > > tree. The patches fix regression introduced in 3.14 where both read and > > write started to run under lock taken, which resulted in FUSE (and many > > other drivers) deadlocks for cases where stream-like files are used with > > read and write being run simultaneously. > > > > Please see complete problem description in upstream commit 10dce8af3422 > > ("fs: stream_open - opener for stream-like files so that read and write > > can run simultaneously without deadlock"). > > > > The actual FUSE fix (upstream commit bbd84f33652f "fuse: Add > > FOPEN_STREAM to use stream_open()") was merged into 5.2 with `Cc: > > stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.14+` mark and is already included into 5.1, > > 5.0 and 4.19 stable trees. However for some reason it is not (yet ?) > > included into 4.14, 4.9, 4.4, 3.18 and 3.16 trees. > > > > The patches fix a real problem into which my FUSE filesystem ran, and > > which also likely affects OSSPD (full details are in the patches > > description). Please consider including the fixes into 4.14 (as well as > > into earlier stable trees - I will send corresponding series separately - > > - one per tree). > > Many thanks for these. I've queued up all but the 3.16 patches (those > are for Ben). > > I hadn't done the backport yet, as I didn't know how "severe" this was, > and didn't have the time to do it. Thanks for making it easy :) Greg, you are welcome and thanks a lot for feedback and for queueing the patches. Ben, looking forward to 3.16 update to care about Jessie. Thanks again, Kirill