From 606686eeac4550d2212bf3d621a810407ef5e9bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 14:03:51 -0400
Subject: Btrfs: use rcu to protect device->name

Al pointed out that we can just toss out the old name on a device and add a
new one arbitrarily, so anybody who uses device->name in printk could
possibly use free'd memory.  Instead of adding locking around all of this he
suggested doing it with RCU, so I've introduced a struct rcu_string that
does just that and have gone through and protected all accesses to
device->name that aren't under the uuid_mutex with rcu_read_lock().  This
protects us and I will use it for dealing with removing the device that we
used to mount the file system in a later patch.  Thanks,

Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
---
 fs/btrfs/volumes.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'fs/btrfs/volumes.h')

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.h b/fs/btrfs/volumes.h
index 3406a88ca83e..74366f27a76b 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.h
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ struct btrfs_device {
 	/* the mode sent to blkdev_get */
 	fmode_t mode;
 
-	char *name;
+	struct rcu_string *name;
 
 	/* the internal btrfs device id */
 	u64 devid;
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