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1 files changed, 64 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 817c243c1ff1..d6847d7b123d 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -507,6 +507,44 @@ void d_drop(struct dentry *dentry)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_drop);
+static inline void dentry_unlist(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *parent)
+{
+ struct dentry *next;
+ /*
+ * Inform d_walk() and shrink_dentry_list() that we are no longer
+ * attached to the dentry tree
+ */
+ dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED;
+ if (unlikely(list_empty(&dentry->d_child)))
+ return;
+ __list_del_entry(&dentry->d_child);
+ /*
+ * Cursors can move around the list of children. While we'd been
+ * a normal list member, it didn't matter - ->d_child.next would've
+ * been updated. However, from now on it won't be and for the
+ * things like d_walk() it might end up with a nasty surprise.
+ * Normally d_walk() doesn't care about cursors moving around -
+ * ->d_lock on parent prevents that and since a cursor has no children
+ * of its own, we get through it without ever unlocking the parent.
+ * There is one exception, though - if we ascend from a child that
+ * gets killed as soon as we unlock it, the next sibling is found
+ * using the value left in its ->d_child.next. And if _that_
+ * pointed to a cursor, and cursor got moved (e.g. by lseek())
+ * before d_walk() regains parent->d_lock, we'll end up skipping
+ * everything the cursor had been moved past.
+ *
+ * Solution: make sure that the pointer left behind in ->d_child.next
+ * points to something that won't be moving around. I.e. skip the
+ * cursors.
+ */
+ while (dentry->d_child.next != &parent->d_subdirs) {
+ next = list_entry(dentry->d_child.next, struct dentry, d_child);
+ if (likely(!(next->d_flags & DCACHE_DENTRY_CURSOR)))
+ break;
+ dentry->d_child.next = next->d_child.next;
+ }
+}
+
static void __dentry_kill(struct dentry *dentry)
{
struct dentry *parent = NULL;
@@ -532,12 +570,7 @@ static void __dentry_kill(struct dentry *dentry)
}
/* if it was on the hash then remove it */
__d_drop(dentry);
- __list_del_entry(&dentry->d_child);
- /*
- * Inform d_walk() that we are no longer attached to the
- * dentry tree
- */
- dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED;
+ dentry_unlist(dentry, parent);
if (parent)
spin_unlock(&parent->d_lock);
dentry_iput(dentry);
@@ -1203,6 +1236,9 @@ resume:
struct dentry *dentry = list_entry(tmp, struct dentry, d_child);
next = tmp->next;
+ if (unlikely(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_DENTRY_CURSOR))
+ continue;
+
spin_lock_nested(&dentry->d_lock, DENTRY_D_LOCK_NESTED);
ret = enter(data, dentry);
@@ -1651,6 +1687,16 @@ struct dentry *d_alloc(struct dentry * parent, const struct qstr *name)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_alloc);
+struct dentry *d_alloc_cursor(struct dentry * parent)
+{
+ struct dentry *dentry = __d_alloc(parent->d_sb, NULL);
+ if (dentry) {
+ dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_RCUACCESS | DCACHE_DENTRY_CURSOR;
+ dentry->d_parent = dget(parent);
+ }
+ return dentry;
+}
+
/**
* d_alloc_pseudo - allocate a dentry (for lookup-less filesystems)
* @sb: the superblock
@@ -2457,7 +2503,6 @@ retry:
rcu_read_unlock();
goto retry;
}
- rcu_read_unlock();
/*
* No changes for the parent since the beginning of d_lookup().
* Since all removals from the chain happen with hlist_bl_lock(),
@@ -2470,8 +2515,6 @@ retry:
continue;
if (dentry->d_parent != parent)
continue;
- if (d_unhashed(dentry))
- continue;
if (parent->d_flags & DCACHE_OP_COMPARE) {
int tlen = dentry->d_name.len;
const char *tname = dentry->d_name.name;
@@ -2483,9 +2526,18 @@ retry:
if (dentry_cmp(dentry, str, len))
continue;
}
- dget(dentry);
hlist_bl_unlock(b);
- /* somebody is doing lookup for it right now; wait for it */
+ /* now we can try to grab a reference */
+ if (!lockref_get_not_dead(&dentry->d_lockref)) {
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ goto retry;
+ }
+
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ /*
+ * somebody is likely to be still doing lookup for it;
+ * wait for them to finish
+ */
spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
d_wait_lookup(dentry);
/*
@@ -2516,6 +2568,7 @@ retry:
dput(new);
return dentry;
}
+ rcu_read_unlock();
/* we can't take ->d_lock here; it's OK, though. */
new->d_flags |= DCACHE_PAR_LOOKUP;
new->d_wait = wq;