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sysfs: fix race condition around sd->s_dentry, take#2

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Allowing attribute and symlink dentries to be reclaimed means
sd->s_dentry can change dynamically.  However, updates to the field
are unsynchronized leading to race conditions.  This patch adds
sysfs_lock and use it to synchronize updates to sd->s_dentry.

Due to the locking around ->d_iput, the check in sysfs_drop_dentry()
is complex.  sysfs_lock only protect sd->s_dentry pointer itself.  The
validity of the dentry is protected by dcache_lock, so whether dentry
is alive or not can only be tested while holding both locks.

This is minimal backport of sysfs_drop_dentry() rewrite in devel
branch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Tejun Heo
2007-06-11 14:04:01 +09:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 6aa054aadf
commit dd14cbc994
3 changed files with 38 additions and 3 deletions
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@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ extern const unsigned char * sysfs_get_name(struct sysfs_dirent *sd);
extern void sysfs_drop_dentry(struct sysfs_dirent *sd, struct dentry *parent);
extern int sysfs_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *iattr);
extern spinlock_t sysfs_lock;
extern struct rw_semaphore sysfs_rename_sem;
extern struct super_block * sysfs_sb;
extern const struct file_operations sysfs_dir_operations;