[PATCH] fuse: fix bitfield race

Fix race in setting bitfields of fuse_conn.  Spotted by Andrew Morton.

The two fields ->connected and ->mounted were always changed with the
fuse_lock held.  But other bitfields in the same structure were changed
without the lock.  In theory this could lead to losing the assignment of
even the ones under lock.  The chosen solution is to change these two
fields to be a full unsigned type.  The other bitfields aren't "important"
enough to warrant the extra complexity of full locking or changing them to
bitops.

For all bitfields document why they are safe wrt. concurrent
assignments.

Also make the initialization of the 'num_waiting' atomic counter explicit.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h b/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
index 7ed1d3c53b8a..46cf933aa3bf 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
+++ b/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
@@ -94,6 +94,11 @@ struct fuse_out {
         /** Header returned from userspace */
         struct fuse_out_header h;
 
+        /*
+         * The following bitfields are not changed during the request
+         * processing
+         */
+
         /** Last argument is variable length (can be shorter than
             arg->size) */
         unsigned argvar:1;
@@ -136,6 +141,12 @@ struct fuse_req {
         /** refcount */
         atomic_t count;
 
+        /*
+         * The following bitfields are either set once before the
+         * request is queued or setting/clearing them is protected by
+         * fuse_lock
+         */
+
         /** True if the request has reply */
         unsigned isreply:1;
 
@@ -250,15 +261,22 @@ struct fuse_conn {
         u64 reqctr;
 
         /** Mount is active */
-        unsigned mounted : 1;
+        unsigned mounted;
 
         /** Connection established, cleared on umount, connection
             abort and device release */
-        unsigned connected : 1;
+        unsigned connected;
 
-        /** Connection failed (version mismatch) */
+        /** Connection failed (version mismatch).  Cannot race with
+            setting other bitfields since it is only set once in INIT
+            reply, before any other request, and never cleared */
         unsigned conn_error : 1;
 
+        /*
+         * The following bitfields are only for optimization purposes
+         * and hence races in setting them will not cause malfunction
+         */
+
         /** Is fsync not implemented by fs? */
         unsigned no_fsync : 1;