fuse: fix hang of single threaded fuseblk filesystem
commit23d154c71721fd0fa6199851078f32e6bd765664
authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:44:58 +0000 (25 14:44 +0100)
committerAK <andi@firstfloor.org>
Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:58:16 +0000 (31 11:58 -0700)
tree75dc04299727176b916cf3e011babcea9c03e263
parent71f4fa9d7193a64da840be62cc4de3b7e1c6f43c
fuse: fix hang of single threaded fuseblk filesystem

commit 5a18ec176c934ca1bc9dc61580a5e0e90a9b5733 upstream.

Single threaded NTFS-3G could get stuck if a delayed RELEASE reply
triggered a DESTROY request via path_put().

Fix this by

 a) making RELEASE requests synchronous, whenever possible, on fuseblk
 filesystems

 b) if not possible (triggered by an asynchronous read/write) then do
 the path_put() in a separate thread with schedule_work().

Reported-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
fs/fuse/file.c
fs/fuse/fuse_i.h