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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2014-08-04 16:24:00 +1000
committerTrond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>2014-08-04 09:22:08 -0400
commit50d77739fa1972030daf1c8902404551e49bf232 (patch)
tree2e88b257ab14a66d790f5741137269965e06c444 /fs
parentf682a398b2e24ae0a775ddf37cced83b897198ee (diff)
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NFS: fix two problems in lookup_revalidate in RCU-walk
1/ rcu_dereference isn't correct: that field isn't RCU protected. It could potentially change at any time so ACCESS_ONCE might be justified. changes to ->d_parent are protected by ->d_seq. However that isn't always checked after ->d_revalidate is called, so it is safest to keep the double-check that ->d_parent hasn't changed at the end of these functions. 2/ in nfs4_lookup_revalidate, "->d_parent" was forgotten. So 'parent' was not the parent of 'dentry'. This fails safe is the context is that dentry->d_inode is NULL, and the result of parent->d_inode being NULL is that ECHILD is returned, which is always safe. Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/nfs/dir.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c
index 1b5f38f48dab..36d921f0c602 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c
@@ -1102,7 +1102,7 @@ static int nfs_lookup_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags)
int error;
if (flags & LOOKUP_RCU) {
- parent = rcu_dereference(dentry->d_parent);
+ parent = ACCESS_ONCE(dentry->d_parent);
dir = ACCESS_ONCE(parent->d_inode);
if (!dir)
return -ECHILD;
@@ -1184,7 +1184,7 @@ out_set_verifier:
nfs_advise_use_readdirplus(dir);
out_valid_noent:
if (flags & LOOKUP_RCU) {
- if (parent != rcu_dereference(dentry->d_parent))
+ if (parent != ACCESS_ONCE(dentry->d_parent))
return -ECHILD;
} else
dput(parent);
@@ -1585,7 +1585,7 @@ static int nfs4_lookup_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags)
struct inode *dir;
if (flags & LOOKUP_RCU) {
- parent = rcu_dereference(dentry);
+ parent = ACCESS_ONCE(dentry->d_parent);
dir = ACCESS_ONCE(parent->d_inode);
if (!dir)
return -ECHILD;
@@ -1599,7 +1599,7 @@ static int nfs4_lookup_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags)
ret = -ECHILD;
if (!(flags & LOOKUP_RCU))
dput(parent);
- else if (parent != rcu_dereference(dentry))
+ else if (parent != ACCESS_ONCE(dentry->d_parent))
return -ECHILD;
goto out;
}