Hello!
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 01:37:08PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > This patch (originally by Chris Mason) fixes link/unlink races in reiserfs.
> Could you describe the race a little more please? Why is the VFS's hold of
> i_sem on the parent directory not sufficient?
Well, we do not take i_sem on parent directory of source filename for sys_link, I think.
So we might endup in sys_link() with inode that is already deleted/being deleted (and nlink==0).
Actually, I naturally thought that only i_nlink check to be non zero at reiserfs_link time should be
enough, but Chris is sure that we need entire patch, so may be he may add more comments to that.
BTW, looking at vfs_link, this patch (below the message) seems to be natural thing to do, is not it?
> > +
> > + /*
> > + * we schedule before doing the add_save_link call, save the link
> > + * count so we don't race
> This comment would seem to imply lock_kernel()-based locking, but
> lock_kernel() is not held here.
It is.
This reiserfs_write_lock/unlock stuff are in fact lock_kernel()/unlock_kernel(),
only I invented those macroses to easy conversion to more fine-grained locking later.
Except that Hans now does not want this to happen.
Bye,
Oleg
===== fs/namei.c 1.81 vs edited =====
--- 1.81/fs/namei.c Fri Jul 11 09:23:45 2003
+++ edited/fs/namei.c Fri Aug 1 14:40:29 2003
@@ -1793,17 +1793,17 @@
return -EPERM;
if (!dir->i_op || !dir->i_op->link)
return -EPERM;
- if (S_ISDIR(old_dentry->d_inode->i_mode))
+ if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
return -EPERM;
error = security_inode_link(old_dentry, dir, new_dentry);
if (error)
return error;
- down(&old_dentry->d_inode->i_sem);
+ down(&inode->i_sem);
DQUOT_INIT(dir);
error = dir->i_op->link(old_dentry, dir, new_dentry);
- up(&old_dentry->d_inode->i_sem);
+ up(&inode->i_sem);
if (!error) {
inode_dir_notify(dir, DN_CREATE);
security_inode_post_link(old_dentry, dir, new_dentry);
-
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