manu 620512b8f3 Fix UFS1 extended attribute backend autocreation deadlock
UFS1 extended attribute backend autocration goes through a vn_open()
to create the backend file, and this forces us to release the lock
on the target node, in case the target is within the parents of the
backend file. That created a window within which another thread could
acquire a lock on the target vnode and deadlock awaiting for the
mount extended attribute lock.

We fix the problem by also releasing the mount extended attribute lock
when calling vn_open(), but that lets another thread race us for backend
creation. We just detect this using O_EXCL for vn_open() and by checking
for EEXIST return code. If we are raced, we fail backend creation but
this is not a problem since another thread succeeded on it: we just have
to use the result.
2014-11-15 05:03:55 +00:00
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