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Commit 6e7ca09b authored by Nikolay Borisov's avatar Nikolay Borisov Committed by David Sterba
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btrfs: Fix deadlock caused by missing memory barrier

Commit 06297d8c ("btrfs: switch extent_buffer blocking_writers from
atomic to int") changed the type of blocking_writers but forgot to
adjust relevant code in btrfs_tree_unlock by converting the
smp_mb__after_atomic to smp_mb.  This opened up the possibility of a
deadlock due to re-ordering of setting blocking_writers and
checking/waking up the waiter. This particular lockup is explained in a
comment above waitqueue_active() function.

Fix it by converting the memory barrier to a full smp_mb, accounting
for the fact that blocking_writers is a simple integer.

Fixes: 06297d8c

 ("btrfs: switch extent_buffer blocking_writers from atomic to int")
Tested-by: default avatarJohannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
parent 373c3b80
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