gfs2: Upstream backports for mmap and deadlock fixes (!242) · Merge requests · Red Hat / centos-stream / src / kernel / centos-stream-9 · GitLab

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Abhi Das requested to merge adas7/adas-centos-stream-9:gfs2-r9-backports into main Dec 09, 2021

This MR ports several upstream patches to address the following issues:

fix recursive locking in gfs2_fault (with mmap)
fix deadlocks in the areas of gfs2_inode_lookup, unlinking a file in a full fs, mounting damaged fs
other minor fixes and cleanups

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1958140 Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1998303 Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2002803 Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2006870 Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2008541 Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2009406 Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2029947 Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2029955 Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2030090 Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2030397

Tested: xfstests, QE tests Upstream Status: upstream

Signed-off-by: Abhi Das adas@redhat.com

Edited Feb 04, 2022 by Abhi Das