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authornpiggin@suse.de <npiggin@suse.de>2010-06-23 23:02:14 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-06-29 13:38:22 -0400
commit57439f878afafefad8836ebf5c49da2a0a746105 (patch)
treeec11dd35704aa37d77a5fd8404fda57f297a3834 /fs/super.c
parent5904b3b81d25166e5e39b9727645bb47937618e3 (diff)
fs: fix superblock iteration race
list_for_each_entry_safe is not suitable to protect against concurrent modification of the list. 6754af6 introduced a race in sb walking. list_for_each_entry can use the trick of pinning the current entry in the list before we drop and retake the lock because it subsequently follows cur->next. However list_for_each_entry_safe saves n=cur->next for following before entering the loop body, so when the lock is dropped, n may be deleted. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/super.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/super.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index 5c35bc7a499e..938119ab8dcb 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -374,6 +374,8 @@ void sync_supers(void)
374 up_read(&sb->s_umount); 374 up_read(&sb->s_umount);
375 375
376 spin_lock(&sb_lock); 376 spin_lock(&sb_lock);
377 /* lock was dropped, must reset next */
378 list_safe_reset_next(sb, n, s_list);
377 __put_super(sb); 379 __put_super(sb);
378 } 380 }
379 } 381 }
@@ -405,6 +407,8 @@ void iterate_supers(void (*f)(struct super_block *, void *), void *arg)
405 up_read(&sb->s_umount); 407 up_read(&sb->s_umount);
406 408
407 spin_lock(&sb_lock); 409 spin_lock(&sb_lock);
410 /* lock was dropped, must reset next */
411 list_safe_reset_next(sb, n, s_list);
408 __put_super(sb); 412 __put_super(sb);
409 } 413 }
410 spin_unlock(&sb_lock); 414 spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
@@ -585,6 +589,8 @@ static void do_emergency_remount(struct work_struct *work)
585 } 589 }
586 up_write(&sb->s_umount); 590 up_write(&sb->s_umount);
587 spin_lock(&sb_lock); 591 spin_lock(&sb_lock);
592 /* lock was dropped, must reset next */
593 list_safe_reset_next(sb, n, s_list);
588 __put_super(sb); 594 __put_super(sb);
589 } 595 }
590 spin_unlock(&sb_lock); 596 spin_unlock(&sb_lock);