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authorMiklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>2006-04-26 10:49:16 +0200
committerMiklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>2006-04-26 10:49:16 +0200
commit8aa09a50b5d9dbdf627f79e19d72d82994348089 (patch)
tree5b50a1b62c8b95223023053595c452b0641f5767 /fs/fuse/inode.c
parent6dbbcb120570d747b00783820ee02d1e1bcf63de (diff)
downloadlinux-8aa09a50b5d9dbdf627f79e19d72d82994348089.tar.bz2
[fuse] fix race between checking and setting file->private_data
BKL does not protect against races if the task may sleep between checking and setting a value. So move checking of file->private_data near to setting it in fuse_fill_super(). Found by Al Viro. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/fuse/inode.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/fuse/inode.c13
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fuse/inode.c b/fs/fuse/inode.c
index fd34037b0588..7627022446b2 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/inode.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/inode.c
@@ -500,11 +500,6 @@ static int fuse_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
if (file->f_op != &fuse_dev_operations)
return -EINVAL;
- /* Setting file->private_data can't race with other mount()
- instances, since BKL is held for ->get_sb() */
- if (file->private_data)
- return -EINVAL;
-
fc = new_conn();
if (!fc)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -540,6 +535,12 @@ static int fuse_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
if (err)
goto err_free_req;
+ /* Setting file->private_data can't race with other mount()
+ instances, since BKL is held for ->get_sb() */
+ err = -EINVAL;
+ if (file->private_data)
+ goto err_kobject_del;
+
sb->s_root = root_dentry;
fc->mounted = 1;
fc->connected = 1;
@@ -556,6 +557,8 @@ static int fuse_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
return 0;
+ err_kobject_del:
+ kobject_del(&fc->kobj);
err_free_req:
fuse_request_free(init_req);
err_put_root: