btrfs: fix lockups from btrfs_clear_path_blocking

The fair reader/writer locks mean that btrfs_clear_path_blocking needs
to strictly follow lock ordering rules even when we already have
blocking locks on a given path.

Before we can clear a blocking lock on the path, we need to make sure
all of the locks have been converted to blocking.  This will remove lock
inversions against anyone spinning in write_lock() against the buffers
we're trying to get read locks on.  These inversions didn't exist before
the fair read/writer locks, but now we need to be more careful.

We papered over this deadlock in the past by changing
btrfs_try_read_lock() to be a true trylock against both the spinlock and
the blocking lock.  This was slower, and not sufficient to fix all the
deadlocks.  This patch adds a btrfs_tree_read_lock_atomic(), which
basically means get the spinlock but trylock on the blocking lock.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Reported-by: Patrick Schmid <schmid@phys.ethz.ch>
cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #v3.15+

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/locking.c b/fs/btrfs/locking.c
index 5665d2149249..f8229ef1b46d 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/locking.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/locking.c
@@ -128,6 +128,26 @@ again:
 }
 
 /*
+ * take a spinning read lock.
+ * returns 1 if we get the read lock and 0 if we don't
+ * this won't wait for blocking writers
+ */
+int btrfs_tree_read_lock_atomic(struct extent_buffer *eb)
+{
+	if (atomic_read(&eb->blocking_writers))
+		return 0;
+
+	read_lock(&eb->lock);
+	if (atomic_read(&eb->blocking_writers)) {
+		read_unlock(&eb->lock);
+		return 0;
+	}
+	atomic_inc(&eb->read_locks);
+	atomic_inc(&eb->spinning_readers);
+	return 1;
+}
+
+/*
  * returns 1 if we get the read lock and 0 if we don't
  * this won't wait for blocking writers
  */
@@ -158,9 +178,7 @@ int btrfs_try_tree_write_lock(struct extent_buffer *eb)
 	    atomic_read(&eb->blocking_readers))
 		return 0;
 
-	if (!write_trylock(&eb->lock))
-		return 0;
-
+	write_lock(&eb->lock);
 	if (atomic_read(&eb->blocking_writers) ||
 	    atomic_read(&eb->blocking_readers)) {
 		write_unlock(&eb->lock);