Re: [PATCH v2] acct: fix possible deadlock in acct_pin_kill

[Al Viro]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 01:52:55PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:

> If new file is on the same fs as old file, acct_pin_kill(old) fail to
> file_start_write_trylock() and skip writing the old file, because
> sb_writers (of new) is already taken by acct_on().

	The above is BS, BTW.  sb_start_write() does *not*
make file_start_write_trylock() to fail.  It's basically
percpu_down_read() vs. percpu_down_read_trylock().

sb_wait_write() would have file_start_write_trylock() fail (as it
should - its caller is freeze_super(); we want an exclusion with
attempts to start extra writes there).  sb_start_write() sure as
hell doesn't - if it would have, we would get its failures from
things like e.g. truncate(2) somewhere on the same fs.

We don't want to mess with anything freeze-related in acct_on(), but
the bug you are refering to in this part really doesn't exist.