delayed_fput, and now there aren't any threads left to handle the queued fuse commands. Fix this by only using asynchronous fputs when closing files, and leave a comment explaining why. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.38 Fixes: 5a18ec176c934c ("fuse: fix hang of single threaded fuseblk filesystem") Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi diff --git a/fs/fuse/file.c b/fs/fuse/file.c index 54786f62a9d8..f1ef77a0be05 100644 --- a/fs/fuse/file.c +++ b/fs/fuse/file.c @@ -356,8 +356,14 @@ void fuse_file_release(struct inode *inode, struct fuse_file *ff, * Make the release synchronous if this is a fuseblk mount, * synchronous RELEASE is allowed (and desirable) in this case * because the server can be trusted not to screw up. + * + * Always use the asynchronous file put because the current thread + * might be the fuse server. This can happen if a process starts some + * aio and closes the fd before the aio completes. Since aio takes its + * own ref to the file, the IO completion has to drop the ref, which is + * how the fuse server can end up closing its clients' files. */ - fuse_file_put(ff, ff->fm->fc->destroy); + fuse_file_put(ff, false); } void fuse_release_common(struct file *file, bool isdir)FAILED: patch "[PATCH] fuse: fix livelock in synchronous file put from fuseblk" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree undefineddjwong@kernel.org,mszeredi@redhat.com undefined undefined undefinedĪrƒg