Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752279AbaAOPRx (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:17:53 -0500 Received: from fieldses.org ([174.143.236.118]:43246 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751259AbaAOPRu (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:17:50 -0500 Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:17:49 -0500 To: Al Viro Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, Miklos Szeredi Subject: [PATCH] dcache: fix d_splice_alias handling of aliases Message-ID: <20140115151749.GF23999@fieldses.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) From: "J. Bruce Fields" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "J. Bruce Fields" d_splice_alias can create duplicate directory aliases (in the !new case), or (in the new case) d_move without holding appropriate locks. d_materialise_unique deals with both of these problems. (The latter seems to be dealt by trylocks (see __d_unalias), which look like they could cause spurious lookup failures--but that's at least better than corrupting the dcache.) Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields --- fs/dcache.c | 25 +------------------------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 24 deletions(-) Only lightly tested.... If this is right, then we can also just ditch d_splice_alias completely, and clean up the various d_find_alias's. I think the only reason we have both d_splice_alias and d_materialise_unique is that the former was written for exportable filesystems and the latter for distributed filesystems. But we have at least one exportable filesystem (fuse) using d_materialise_unique. And I doubt d_splice_alias was ever completely correct even for on-disk filesystems. Am I missing some subtlety? --b. diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index 4bdb300..da82fa9 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -1926,33 +1926,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_obtain_alias); */ struct dentry *d_splice_alias(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *dentry) { - struct dentry *new = NULL; - if (IS_ERR(inode)) return ERR_CAST(inode); - if (inode && S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) { - spin_lock(&inode->i_lock); - new = __d_find_alias(inode, 1); - if (new) { - BUG_ON(!(new->d_flags & DCACHE_DISCONNECTED)); - spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); - security_d_instantiate(new, inode); - d_move(new, dentry); - iput(inode); - } else { - /* already taking inode->i_lock, so d_add() by hand */ - __d_instantiate(dentry, inode); - spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); - security_d_instantiate(dentry, inode); - d_rehash(dentry); - } - } else { - d_instantiate(dentry, inode); - if (d_unhashed(dentry)) - d_rehash(dentry); - } - return new; + return d_materialise_unique(dentry, inode); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_splice_alias); -- 1.7.9.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/