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| author | Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> | 2006-03-20 13:44:51 -0500 |
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| committer | Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> | 2006-03-20 13:44:51 -0500 |
| commit | c42de9dd67250fe984e0e31c9b542d721af6454b (patch) | |
| tree | a4079b25a044f7124837f572e5342dc7614ca75d /fs/nfs/inode.c | |
| parent | 7d46a49f512e8d10b23353781a8ba85edd4fa640 (diff) | |
NFS: Fix a race in nfs_sync_inode()
Kudos to Neil Brown for spotting the problem:
"in nfs_sync_inode, there is effectively the sequence:
nfs_wait_on_requests
nfs_flush_inode
nfs_commit_inode
This seems a bit racy to me as if the only requests are on the
->commit list, and nfs_commit_inode is called separately after
nfs_wait_on_requests completes, and before nfs_commit_inode start
(say: by nfs_write_inode) then none of these function will return
>0, yet there will be some pending request that aren't waited for."
The solution is to search for requests to wait upon, search for dirty
requests, and search for uncommitted requests while holding the
nfsi->req_lock
The patch also cleans up nfs_sync_inode(), getting rid of the redundant
FLUSH_WAIT flag. It turns out that we were always setting it.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/nfs/inode.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/nfs/inode.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nfs/inode.c b/fs/nfs/inode.c index a0cda53461b3..60aac58270a8 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/nfs/inode.c @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ nfs_fattr_to_ino_t(struct nfs_fattr *fattr) static int nfs_write_inode(struct inode *inode, int sync) { - int flags = sync ? FLUSH_WAIT : 0; + int flags = sync ? FLUSH_SYNC : 0; int ret; ret = nfs_commit_inode(inode, flags); @@ -1051,7 +1051,7 @@ int nfs_getattr(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *dentry, struct kstat *stat) int err; /* Flush out writes to the server in order to update c/mtime */ - nfs_sync_inode(inode, 0, 0, FLUSH_WAIT|FLUSH_NOCOMMIT); + nfs_sync_inode_wait(inode, 0, 0, FLUSH_NOCOMMIT); /* * We may force a getattr if the user cares about atime. |