cifs: Fix cifsInodeInfo lock_sem deadlock when reconnect occurs

There's a deadlock that is possible and can easily be seen with
a test where multiple readers open/read/close of the same file
and a disruption occurs causing reconnect.  The deadlock is due
a reader thread inside cifs_strict_readv calling down_read and
obtaining lock_sem, and then after reconnect inside
cifs_reopen_file calling down_read a second time.  If in
between the two down_read calls, a down_write comes from
another process, deadlock occurs.

        CPU0                    CPU1
        ----                    ----
cifs_strict_readv()
 down_read(&cifsi->lock_sem);
                               _cifsFileInfo_put
                                  OR
                               cifs_new_fileinfo
                                down_write(&cifsi->lock_sem);
cifs_reopen_file()
 down_read(&cifsi->lock_sem);

Fix the above by changing all down_write(lock_sem) calls to
down_write_trylock(lock_sem)/msleep() loop, which in turn
makes the second down_read call benign since it will never
block behind the writer while holding lock_sem.

Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@redhat.com>
Reviewed--by: Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@microsoft.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h b/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h
index 50dfd9049370..d78bfcc19156 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h
@@ -1391,6 +1391,11 @@ void cifsFileInfo_put(struct cifsFileInfo *cifs_file);
 struct cifsInodeInfo {
 	bool can_cache_brlcks;
 	struct list_head llist;	/* locks helb by this inode */
+	/*
+	 * NOTE: Some code paths call down_read(lock_sem) twice, so
+	 * we must always use use cifs_down_write() instead of down_write()
+	 * for this semaphore to avoid deadlocks.
+	 */
 	struct rw_semaphore lock_sem;	/* protect the fields above */
 	/* BB add in lists for dirty pages i.e. write caching info for oplock */
 	struct list_head openFileList;