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authorAndreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>2016-03-24 14:38:37 +0100
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2016-03-31 00:30:15 -0400
commitb8a7a3a6674725d7ca0ff6e322f6c1cab6e6a11d (patch)
tree5f442f636d5a2c2a95ae53a9bb067b320108974b /fs/ext4/acl.c
parent8861964f4c7caecbacc89bcb6b513b40cf097a02 (diff)
downloadlinux-b8a7a3a6674725d7ca0ff6e322f6c1cab6e6a11d.tar.bz2
posix_acl: Inode acl caching fixes
When get_acl() is called for an inode whose ACL is not cached yet, the get_acl inode operation is called to fetch the ACL from the filesystem. The inode operation is responsible for updating the cached acl with set_cached_acl(). This is done without locking at the VFS level, so another task can call set_cached_acl() or forget_cached_acl() before the get_acl inode operation gets to calling set_cached_acl(), and then get_acl's call to set_cached_acl() results in caching an outdate ACL. Prevent this from happening by setting the cached ACL pointer to a task-specific sentinel value before calling the get_acl inode operation. Move the responsibility for updating the cached ACL from the get_acl inode operations to get_acl(). There, only set the cached ACL if the sentinel value hasn't changed. The sentinel values are chosen to have odd values. Likewise, the value of ACL_NOT_CACHED is odd. In contrast, ACL object pointers always have an even value (ACLs are aligned in memory). This allows to distinguish uncached ACLs values from ACL objects. In addition, switch from guarding inode->i_acl and inode->i_default_acl upates by the inode->i_lock spinlock to using xchg() and cmpxchg(). Filesystems that do not want ACLs returned from their get_acl inode operations to be cached must call forget_cached_acl() to prevent the VFS from doing so. (Patch written by Al Viro and Andreas Gruenbacher.) Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/acl.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/acl.c3
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/acl.c b/fs/ext4/acl.c
index 69b1e73026a5..c6601a476c02 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/acl.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/acl.c
@@ -172,9 +172,6 @@ ext4_get_acl(struct inode *inode, int type)
acl = ERR_PTR(retval);
kfree(value);
- if (!IS_ERR(acl))
- set_cached_acl(inode, type, acl);
-
return acl;
}