fuse: fix hang of single threaded fuseblk filesystem
commit5c46eb076e0a1b2c1769287cd6942e4594ade1b1
authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:44:58 +0000 (25 14:44 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:45:24 +0000 (21 12:45 -0700)
tree1fb646ff1636d1e1b5fef48e673dd7ead255f71e
parent4389b6188647b4dbc84d54bbc467ddf966dcb837
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>
fs/fuse/file.c
fs/fuse/fuse_i.h