Re: [PATCH 07/11] gfs2: pass correct dentry to finish_open() in__gfs2_lookup()

From: Miklos Szeredi
Date: Mon Sep 16 2013 - 09:34:00 EST


On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 02:13:14PM +0100, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2013-09-16 at 14:52 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > AFAICS if d_splice_alias() returned non-NULL, this code would Oops
> > (finish_open expects an instantiated dentry).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > ---
> > fs/gfs2/inode.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/gfs2/inode.c b/fs/gfs2/inode.c
> > index 6d7f976..abe7dae 100644
> > --- a/fs/gfs2/inode.c
> > +++ b/fs/gfs2/inode.c
> > @@ -774,7 +774,7 @@ static struct dentry *__gfs2_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
> >
> > d = d_splice_alias(inode, dentry);
> > if (file && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
> > - error = finish_open(file, dentry, gfs2_open_common, opened);
> > + error = finish_open(file, d ? d : dentry, gfs2_open_common, opened);
> >
> > gfs2_glock_dq_uninit(&gh);
> > if (error)
>
> Not sure I understand why this is required... when the inode is a
> regular file, d can only be an error (if the inode is an error) or it
> will be NULL.

Okay, you're right. Still, something like the following should make this clear
and ensure things don't break in the future.

Thanks,
Miklos

---
fs/gfs2/inode.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/gfs2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/inode.c
@@ -775,8 +775,10 @@ static struct dentry *__gfs2_lookup(stru
}

d = d_splice_alias(inode, dentry);
- if (file && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
+ if (file && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) {
+ BUG_ON(d);
error = finish_open(file, dentry, gfs2_open_common, opened);
+ }

gfs2_glock_dq_uninit(&gh);
if (error)
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