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Andreas reported that he was seeing the tdbtorture test fail in some cases with -EDEADLCK when it wasn't before. Some debugging showed that deadlock detection was sometimes discovering the caller's lock request itself in a dependency chain. While we remove the request from the blocked_lock_hash prior to reattempting to acquire it, any locks that are blocked on that request will still be present in the hash and will still have their fl_blocker pointer set to the current request. This causes posix_locks_deadlock to find a deadlock dependency chain when it shouldn't, as a lock request cannot block itself. We are going to end up waking all of those blocked locks anyway when we go to reinsert the request back into the blocked_lock_hash, so just do it prior to checking for deadlocks. This ensures that any lock blocked on the current request will no longer be part of any blocked request chain. URL: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202975 Fixes: 5946c4319ebb ("fs/locks: allow a lock request to block other requests.") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Andreas Schneider <asn@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.