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authorJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>2012-06-28 12:10:55 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2013-11-09 00:16:33 -0500
commit7632e465feb182cadc3c9aa1282a057201818a8c (patch)
treee0522936e1bbd0c4305a99b103b7b62819eb5dc3 /fs/dcache.c
parentb19f13367454a57cd584031f0d52b05ac5ea97cd (diff)
downloadlinux-7632e465feb182cadc3c9aa1282a057201818a8c.tar.bz2
dcache: use IS_ROOT to decide where dentry is hashed
Every hashed dentry is either hashed in the dentry_hashtable, or a superblock's s_anon list. __d_drop() assumes it can determine which is the case by checking DCACHE_DISCONNECTED; this is not true. It is true that when DCACHE_DISCONNECTED is cleared, the dentry is not only hashed on dentry_hashtable, but is fully connected to its parents back to the root. But the converse is *not* true: fs/exportfs/expfs.c:reconnect_path() attempts to connect a directory (found by filehandle lookup) back to root by ascending to parents and performing lookups one at a time. It does not clear DCACHE_DISCONNECTED until it's done, and that is not at all an atomic process. In particular, it is possible for DCACHE_DISCONNECTED to be set on a dentry which is hashed on the dentry_hashtable. Instead, use IS_ROOT() to check which hash chain a dentry is on. This *does* work: Dentries are hashed only by: - d_obtain_alias, which adds an IS_ROOT() dentry to sb_anon. - __d_rehash, called by _d_rehash: hashes to the dentry's parent, and all callers of _d_rehash appear to have d_parent set to a "real" parent. - __d_rehash, called by __d_move: rehashes the moved dentry to hash chain determined by target, and assigns target's d_parent to its d_parent, before dropping the dentry's d_lock. Therefore I believe it's safe for a holder of a dentry's d_lock to assume that it is hashed on sb_anon if and only if IS_ROOT(dentry) is true. I believe the incorrect assumption about DCACHE_DISCONNECTED was originally introduced by ceb5bdc2d246 "fs: dcache per-bucket dcache hash locking". Also add a comment while we're here. Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/dcache.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/dcache.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 525770e576db..c2add37082b6 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -503,7 +503,12 @@ void __d_drop(struct dentry *dentry)
{
if (!d_unhashed(dentry)) {
struct hlist_bl_head *b;
- if (unlikely(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_DISCONNECTED))
+ /*
+ * Hashed dentries are normally on the dentry hashtable,
+ * with the exception of those newly allocated by
+ * d_obtain_alias, which are always IS_ROOT:
+ */
+ if (unlikely(IS_ROOT(dentry)))
b = &dentry->d_sb->s_anon;
else
b = d_hash(dentry->d_parent, dentry->d_name.hash);