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authorjiangyiwen <jiangyiwen@huawei.com>2014-04-03 14:47:13 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-04-03 16:20:57 -0700
commit43b10a20372d9a1c08391f33f1c8bd86179ddc5f (patch)
treeed5fd7ca5fd34c4d84393e7fb3d65b8512594382 /fs/ocfs2/sysfile.c
parent7dc3e83901b342ea7fe36262329c3784f2937361 (diff)
downloadlinux-43b10a20372d9a1c08391f33f1c8bd86179ddc5f.tar.bz2
ocfs2: avoid system inode ref confusion by adding mutex lock
The following case may lead to the same system inode ref in confusion. A thread B thread ocfs2_get_system_file_inode ->get_local_system_inode ->_ocfs2_get_system_file_inode because of *arr == NULL, ocfs2_get_system_file_inode ->get_local_system_inode ->_ocfs2_get_system_file_inode gets first ref thru _ocfs2_get_system_file_inode, gets second ref thru igrab and set *arr = inode at the moment, B thread also gets two refs, so lead to one more inode ref. So add mutex lock to avoid multi thread set two inode ref once at the same time. Signed-off-by: jiangyiwen <jiangyiwen@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@huawei.com> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ocfs2/sysfile.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/ocfs2/sysfile.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/sysfile.c b/fs/ocfs2/sysfile.c
index f053688d22a3..af155c183123 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/sysfile.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/sysfile.c
@@ -113,9 +113,11 @@ struct inode *ocfs2_get_system_file_inode(struct ocfs2_super *osb,
} else
arr = get_local_system_inode(osb, type, slot);
+ mutex_lock(&osb->system_file_mutex);
if (arr && ((inode = *arr) != NULL)) {
/* get a ref in addition to the array ref */
inode = igrab(inode);
+ mutex_unlock(&osb->system_file_mutex);
BUG_ON(!inode);
return inode;
@@ -129,6 +131,7 @@ struct inode *ocfs2_get_system_file_inode(struct ocfs2_super *osb,
*arr = igrab(inode);
BUG_ON(!*arr);
}
+ mutex_unlock(&osb->system_file_mutex);
return inode;
}