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Date:      Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:06:56 +0100
From:      Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>
To:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        bzeeb+freebsd+lor@zabbadoz.net, Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: LOR: vfs_mount.c (ufs) / msdosfs_vfsops.c (devfs)
Message-ID:  <3bbf2fe11002080706k11275a9evbf8a7fa1b14b447f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <3bbf2fe11002080701u35a3e419ke562735f4f00ce97@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20100207160031.GA27434@muon.cran.org.uk> <201002080900.44745.jhb@freebsd.org> <20100208145354.GJ9991@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <3bbf2fe11002080701u35a3e419ke562735f4f00ce97@mail.gmail.com>

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2010/2/8 Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>:
> 2010/2/8 Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>:
>> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:00:44AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
>>> On Sunday 07 February 2010 11:00:32 am Bruce Cran wrote:
>>> > Running -CURRENT from today, I unmounted the msdosfs filesystem on my
>>> > phone and got the following LOR:
>>> >
>>> > lock order reversal:
>>> > =C2=A01st 0xffffff00c51279f8 ufs (ufs) @ /usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_mount.=
c:1204
>>> > =C2=A02nd 0xffffff010b892278 devfs (devfs) @
>>> > /usr/src/sys/modules/msdosfs/../../fs/msdosfs/msdosfs_vfsops.c:944
>>> > KDB: stack backtrace:
>>> > db_trace_self_wrapper() at db_trace_self_wrapper+0x2a
>>> > _witness_debugger() at witness_debugger+0x2e
>>> > witness_checkorder() at witness_checkorder+0x81e
>>> > __lockmgr_args() at __lockmgr_args+0xd11
>>> > vop_stdlock() at vop_stdlock+0x39
>>> > VOP_LOCK1_APV() VOP_LOCK1_APV+0x9b
>>> > _vn_lock() at _vn_lock+0x47
>>> > msdosfs_sync() at msdosfs_sync+0x227
>>> > dounmount() at dounmount+0x2ca
>>> > unmount() at unmount+0x216
>>> > syscall() at syscall+0x2a2
>>> > Xfast_syscall() at Xfast_syscall+0xe1
>>> > --- syscall (22, FreeBSD ELF64, unmount), rip =3D 0x8006a1e3c, rsp =
=3D
>>> > 0x7fffffffe3a8, rbp =3D 0x800c08010 ---
>>>
>>> This is due to holding a lock on the coveredvp vnode for most of unmoun=
t(2).
>>> Probably it should not be held for all of that. =C2=A0Perhaps it is saf=
e to just
>>> keep the vnode referenced instead, or could the handling for coveredvp =
just
>>> move to the end of the function where it is now vput?
>>
>> Among other things, holding vnode lock on covered vnode prevents paralle=
l
>> unmounts of the same mount point.
>
> Uhm, I think that this should be hanlded by MNTK_UNMOUNT already (and
> thus stopping forced unmounts too).

In other words probabilly keeping coveredvnode held until MNTK_UNMOUNT
and then refcounting it should be fine.

Attilio


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