ceph: fix cap removal races

The iterate_session_caps helper traverses the session caps list and tries
to grab an inode reference.  However, the __ceph_remove_cap was clearing
the inode backpointer _before_ removing itself from the session list,
causing a null pointer dereference.

Clear cap->ci under protection of s_cap_lock to avoid the race, and to
tightly couple the list and backpointer state.  Use a local flag to
indicate whether we are releasing the cap, as cap->session may be modified
by a racing thread in iterate_session_caps.

Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ceph/mds_client.c b/fs/ceph/mds_client.c
index eccc0ecad1a2..24561a557e01 100644
--- a/fs/ceph/mds_client.c
+++ b/fs/ceph/mds_client.c
@@ -736,9 +736,10 @@ static void cleanup_cap_releases(struct ceph_mds_session *session)
 }
 
 /*
- * Helper to safely iterate over all caps associated with a session.
+ * Helper to safely iterate over all caps associated with a session, with
+ * special care taken to handle a racing __ceph_remove_cap().
  *
- * caller must hold session s_mutex
+ * Caller must hold session s_mutex.
  */
 static int iterate_session_caps(struct ceph_mds_session *session,
                                  int (*cb)(struct inode *, struct ceph_cap *,