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authornpiggin@suse.de <npiggin@suse.de>2010-06-24 13:02:14 +1000
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-06-29 10:38:22 -0700
commit57439f878afafefad8836ebf5c49da2a0a746105 (patch)
treeec11dd35704aa37d77a5fd8404fda57f297a3834 /include/linux
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 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/list.h15
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/list.h b/include/linux/list.h
index 8392884a2977..5d57a3a1fa1b 100644
--- a/include/linux/list.h
+++ b/include/linux/list.h
@@ -544,6 +544,21 @@ static inline void list_splice_tail_init(struct list_head *list,
&pos->member != (head); \
pos = n, n = list_entry(n->member.prev, typeof(*n), member))
+/**
+ * list_safe_reset_next - reset a stale list_for_each_entry_safe loop
+ * @pos: the loop cursor used in the list_for_each_entry_safe loop
+ * @n: temporary storage used in list_for_each_entry_safe
+ * @member: the name of the list_struct within the struct.
+ *
+ * list_safe_reset_next is not safe to use in general if the list may be
+ * modified concurrently (eg. the lock is dropped in the loop body). An
+ * exception to this is if the cursor element (pos) is pinned in the list,
+ * and list_safe_reset_next is called after re-taking the lock and before
+ * completing the current iteration of the loop body.
+ */
+#define list_safe_reset_next(pos, n, member) \
+ n = list_entry(pos->member.next, typeof(*pos), member)
+
/*
* Double linked lists with a single pointer list head.
* Mostly useful for hash tables where the two pointer list head is