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ntfs: avoid self-deadlock during inode eviction
authorHyunchul Lee <hyc.lee@gmail.com>
Thu, 2 Jul 2026 05:28:16 +0000 (14:28 +0900)
committerNamjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
Mon, 6 Jul 2026 11:26:05 +0000 (20:26 +0900)
commit77dc384207d5fa63ba97c3bf3285fe1215a1cbf6
treeaaf59efcd29fec1f20e82579740c55bc3055ad14
parentf72df3a4c33b64de3418ec74d1ad4f028e09d161
ntfs: avoid self-deadlock during inode eviction

An attribute-list update performed while allocating clusters can drop the
last reference to the temporary attribute inode. Evicting that inode
drops its reference to the base inode and can invoke ntfs_drop_big_inode()
for the base inode from within the base inode's own writeback path.

If the base inode is unlinked, ntfs_drop_big_inode() calls
truncate_setsize(), which waits for the inode's folio writeback to
complete. The same writeback worker is responsible for completing that
writeback, so it waits for itself indefinitely.

Prevent this self-deadlock by grabbing a reference to the base inode at the
beginning of ntfs_writepages() and releasing it at the end of the function.
This defers eviction until all bios have been submitted, allowing the wait
for folio writeback to complete safely.

Fixes: b041ca562526 ("ntfs: update iomap and address space operations")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Hyunchul Lee <hyc.lee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
fs/ntfs/aops.c