NFS: Fix up commit deadlocks

If O_DIRECT bumps the commit_info rpcs_out field, then that could lead
to fsync() hangs. The fix is to ensure that O_DIRECT calls
nfs_commit_end().

Fixes: 723c921 ("sched/wait, fs/nfs: Convert wait_on_atomic_t() usage to the new wait_var_event() API")
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>

Author: Trond Myklebust

fs/nfs/direct.c

@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ static void nfs_direct_commit_complete(struct nfs_commit_data *data)
 		nfs_unlock_and_release_request(req);
 	}
 
-	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&cinfo.mds->rpcs_out))
+	if (nfs_commit_end(cinfo.mds))
 		nfs_direct_write_complete(dreq);
 }
 

fs/nfs/pnfs_nfs.c

@@ -468,7 +468,6 @@ pnfs_bucket_alloc_ds_commits(struct list_head *list,
 				goto out_error;
 			data->ds_commit_index = i;
 			list_add_tail(&data->list, list);
-			atomic_inc(&cinfo->mds->rpcs_out);
 			nreq++;
 		}
 		mutex_unlock(&NFS_I(cinfo->inode)->commit_mutex);
@@ -520,7 +519,6 @@ pnfs_generic_commit_pagelist(struct inode *inode, struct list_head *mds_pages,
 		data->ds_commit_index = -1;
 		list_splice_init(mds_pages, &data->pages);
 		list_add_tail(&data->list, &list);
-		atomic_inc(&cinfo->mds->rpcs_out);
 		nreq++;
 	}
 

fs/nfs/write.c

@@ -1673,10 +1673,13 @@ static void nfs_commit_begin(struct nfs_mds_commit_info *cinfo)
 	atomic_inc(&cinfo->rpcs_out);
 }
 
-static void nfs_commit_end(struct nfs_mds_commit_info *cinfo)
+bool nfs_commit_end(struct nfs_mds_commit_info *cinfo)
 {
-	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&cinfo->rpcs_out))
+	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&cinfo->rpcs_out)) {
 		wake_up_var(&cinfo->rpcs_out);
+		return true;
+	}
+	return false;
 }
 
 void nfs_commitdata_release(struct nfs_commit_data *data)
@@ -1776,6 +1779,7 @@ void nfs_init_commit(struct nfs_commit_data *data,
 	data->res.fattr   = &data->fattr;
 	data->res.verf    = &data->verf;
 	nfs_fattr_init(&data->fattr);
+	nfs_commit_begin(cinfo->mds);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nfs_init_commit);
 
@@ -1822,7 +1826,6 @@ nfs_commit_list(struct inode *inode, struct list_head *head, int how,
 
 	/* Set up the argument struct */
 	nfs_init_commit(data, head, NULL, cinfo);
-	atomic_inc(&cinfo->mds->rpcs_out);
 	if (NFS_SERVER(inode)->nfs_client->cl_minorversion)
 		task_flags = RPC_TASK_MOVEABLE;
 	return nfs_initiate_commit(NFS_CLIENT(inode), data, NFS_PROTO(inode),

include/linux/nfs_fs.h

@@ -568,6 +568,7 @@ extern int nfs_wb_page_cancel(struct inode *inode, struct page* page);
 extern int  nfs_commit_inode(struct inode *, int);
 extern struct nfs_commit_data *nfs_commitdata_alloc(bool never_fail);
 extern void nfs_commit_free(struct nfs_commit_data *data);
+bool nfs_commit_end(struct nfs_mds_commit_info *cinfo);
 
 static inline int
 nfs_have_writebacks(struct inode *inode)