[PATCH 09/15] GFS2: Remove potential race in flock code

From: Steven Whitehouse
Date: Tue Mar 15 2011 - 05:34:25 EST


This patch ensures that we always wait for glock demotion when
dropping flocks on a file in order to prevent any race
conditions associated with further flock calls or closing
the file.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/file.c b/fs/gfs2/file.c
index 216ad27..2878481 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/file.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/file.c
@@ -981,8 +981,10 @@ static void do_unflock(struct file *file, struct file_lock *fl)

mutex_lock(&fp->f_fl_mutex);
flock_lock_file_wait(file, fl);
- if (fl_gh->gh_gl)
- gfs2_glock_dq_uninit(fl_gh);
+ if (fl_gh->gh_gl) {
+ gfs2_glock_dq_wait(fl_gh);
+ gfs2_holder_uninit(fl_gh);
+ }
mutex_unlock(&fp->f_fl_mutex);
}

--
1.7.4

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