Re: [PATCH 1/1] btrfs: locking: Allow btrfs_tree_lock() to return error to avoid deadlock

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On 30.07.2018 09:17, Qu Wenruo wrote:
> -void btrfs_tree_lock(struct extent_buffer *eb)
> +int btrfs_tree_lock(struct extent_buffer *eb)
>  {
> -	WARN_ON(eb->lock_owner == current->pid);
> +	if (unlikely(eb->lock_owner == current->pid)) {
> +		WARN(1,
> +"tree block %llu already locked by current (pid=%llu), refuse to lock",
> +		     eb->start, current->pid);
> +		return -EUCLEAN;
> +	}

If this happens it should point to a logical bug in which case we need
to halt the kernel. Furthermore this seems the wrong abstraction level
at which to solve the problem. eb->lock_owner is a runtime
characteristic of the eb, yet when it has an unexpected value you return
EUCLEAN which is an error for an on-disk error.

I don't think it's productive to try and solve every possible
fuzz-inspired corruption. In the worst case this corruption should be
caught a lot earlier rather than when we are locking an in-memory
structure.
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