Use f_lock to protect f_flags

Traditionally, changes to struct file->f_flags have been done under BKL
protection, or with no protection at all.  This patch causes all f_flags
changes after file open/creation time to be done under protection of
f_lock.  This allows the removal of some BKL usage and fixes a number of
longstanding (if microscopic) races.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This commit is contained in:
Jonathan Corbet
2009-02-06 15:25:24 -07:00
parent 6849991490
commit db1dd4d376
13 changed files with 33 additions and 9 deletions

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@ -848,7 +848,7 @@ struct file {
#define f_dentry f_path.dentry
#define f_vfsmnt f_path.mnt
const struct file_operations *f_op;
spinlock_t f_lock; /* f_ep_links */
spinlock_t f_lock; /* f_ep_links, f_flags */
atomic_long_t f_count;
unsigned int f_flags;
fmode_t f_mode;