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author | David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> | 2009-04-20 23:18:37 +0100 |
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committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2009-04-20 23:01:16 -0400 |
commit | 2f9092e1020246168b1309b35e085ecd7ff9ff72 (patch) | |
tree | f8318c1e62e789718ae7637869f6c075b815bcb2 /Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | |
parent | 1ba0c7dbbbc24230394100c5f0d0df38cb400cff (diff) |
Fix i_mutex vs. readdir handling in nfsd
Commit 14f7dd63 ("Copy XFS readdir hack into nfsd code") introduced a
bug to generic code which had been extant for a long time in the XFS
version -- it started to call through into lookup_one_len() and hence
into the file systems' ->lookup() methods without i_mutex held on the
directory.
This patch fixes it by locking the directory's i_mutex again before
calling the filldir functions. The original deadlocks which commit
14f7dd63 was designed to avoid are still avoided, because they were due
to fs-internal locking, not i_mutex.
While we're at it, fix the return type of nfsd_buffered_readdir() which
should be a __be32 not an int -- it's an NFS errno, not a Linux errno.
And return nfserrno(-ENOMEM) when allocation fails, not just -ENOMEM.
Sparse would have caught that, if it wasn't so busy bitching about
__cold__.
Commit 05f4f678 ("nfsd4: don't do lookup within readdir in recovery
code") introduced a similar problem with calling lookup_one_len()
without i_mutex, which this patch also addresses. To fix that, it was
necessary to fix the called functions so that they expect i_mutex to be
held; that part was done by J. Bruce Fields.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Umm-I-can-live-with-that-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Reported-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
Tested-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
LKML-Reference: <8036.1237474444@jrobl>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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