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| author | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2008-12-29 07:40:31 -0500 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2009-01-05 11:54:29 -0500 |
| commit | 5b45d96bf963afeb931a75faf02fb424e446e5a9 (patch) | |
| tree | 12f77648fc10aad3cc188537ce7a82dc9b3275a3 /fs/jfs | |
| parent | d8e9650dff48055057253ca30933605bd7d0733b (diff) | |
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fix the treatment of jfs special inodes
We used to put them on a single list, without any locking. Racy.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/jfs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c b/fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c index d6363d8309d0..0f94381ca6d0 100644 --- a/fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c +++ b/fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c @@ -58,9 +58,9 @@ /* * __mark_inode_dirty expects inodes to be hashed. Since we don't want - * special inodes in the fileset inode space, we hash them to a dummy head + * special inodes in the fileset inode space, we make them appear hashed, + * but do not put on any lists. */ -static HLIST_HEAD(aggregate_hash); /* * imap locks @@ -496,7 +496,11 @@ struct inode *diReadSpecial(struct super_block *sb, ino_t inum, int secondary) /* release the page */ release_metapage(mp); - hlist_add_head(&ip->i_hash, &aggregate_hash); + /* + * that will look hashed, but won't be on any list; hlist_del() + * will work fine and require no locking. + */ + ip->i_hash.pprev = &ip->i_hash.next; return (ip); } |