Re: fs/namei.c: Misuse of sequence counts?
From: Eric Biggers
Date: Sun Oct 12 2014 - 00:52:07 EST
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 05:37:37AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
>
> Gets clumsy in set_root_rcu() - you do *not* want it to bugger nd->inode
> when done by follow_dotdot_rcu(), so we'd need either some indication which
> caller it is, or something like struct inode **inode in argument list,
> with NULL passed from follow_dotdot_rcu(), while path_init() would give
> it &nd->inode...
>
> Doable, but unpleasant. And the price of that check is trivial - after all,
> in case we *don't* bugger off immediately, we have that ->d_seq in cache -
> we'd fetched it just before.
Or set_root_rcu() can be hand-inlined, like the AT_FDCWD case. Then the only
caller of set_root_rcu() would be follow_dotdot_rcu(), and the unnecessary
__read_seqcount_begin() could be removed. (Probably gcc can't optimize it out
currently, because of the ACCESS_ONCE().)
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