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Re: [Virtio-fs] [PATCH v2] virtiofsd: Do not support blocking flock


From: Dr. David Alan Gilbert
Subject: Re: [Virtio-fs] [PATCH v2] virtiofsd: Do not support blocking flock
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 19:56:01 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/2.1.5 (2021-12-30)

* Sebastian Hasler (sebastian.hasler@stuvus.uni-stuttgart.de) wrote:
> With the current implementation, blocking flock can lead to
> deadlock. Thus, it's better to return EOPNOTSUPP if a user attempts
> to perform a blocking flock request.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Hasler <sebastian.hasler@stuvus.uni-stuttgart.de>

Queued, apologies for the delay.

> ---
>  tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c 
> b/tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c
> index 64b5b4fbb1..faa62278c5 100644
> --- a/tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c
> +++ b/tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c
> @@ -2442,6 +2442,15 @@ static void lo_flock(fuse_req_t req, fuse_ino_t ino, 
> struct fuse_file_info *fi,
>      int res;
>      (void)ino;
>  
> +    if (!(op & LOCK_NB)) {
> +        /*
> +         * Blocking flock can deadlock as there is only one thread
> +         * serving the queue.
> +         */
> +        fuse_reply_err(req, EOPNOTSUPP);
> +        return;
> +    }
> +
>      res = flock(lo_fi_fd(req, fi), op);
>  
>      fuse_reply_err(req, res == -1 ? errno : 0);
> -- 
> 2.33.1
-- 
Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK




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