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| author | Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> | 2016-08-27 11:31:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> | 2016-09-29 11:14:06 +0200 |
| commit | 98d91ddd338eea3a4eed37f4f2498ce5a3cc1102 (patch) | |
| tree | 45067a56b187898f8ea033a9b802f1706520c225 /fs | |
| parent | 6ec8ba03f408beac5bad1e9ec06c8a90b373f3ac (diff) | |
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fix d_walk()/non-delayed __d_free() race
I checked Jari's explanation below and found that v3.14.77 and v3.12.62
are missing the same fix as 3.10. In fact Al's original commit 3d56c25
("fix d_walk()/non-delayed __d_free() race") used to mention to check
this __d_materialise_dentry() function in the Cc: stable line, but this
got lost during the backports.
Normally all of our 3 kernels need to apply the following patch that
Ben correctly put in 3.16 and 3.2. I'm fixing the backport in 3.10.103
right now.
On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 04:56:57PM +0300, Jari Ruusu wrote:
> This patch for 3.10 branch appears to be missing one important
>
> + dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_RCUACCESS;
>
> in fs/dcache.c __d_materialise_dentry() function. When Ben Hutchings
> backported Al Viro's original fix to stable branches that he maintains,
> he added that one additional line to both 3.2 and 3.16 branches. Please
> consider including that additional one line fix for 3.10 stable branch
> also.
>
>
> Ben Hutchings said this on his 3.2.82-rc1 patch:
> [bwh: Backported to 3.2:
> - Adjust context
> - Also set the flag in __d_materialise_dentry())]
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=147117565612275&w=2
>
>
> Ben Hutchings said this on his 3.16.37-rc1 patch:
> [bwh: Backported to 3.16:
> - Adjust context
> - Also set the flag in __d_materialise_dentry())]
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=147117433412006&w=2
>
>
> Also mentioned by Sasha Levin on 3.18 and 4.1 commits:
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.2+ (and watch out for __d_materialise_dentry())
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-stable-commits&m=146648034410827&w=2
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-stable-commits&m=146647471009771&w=2
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/dcache.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index 9befdcea22fa..11ded5b0b853 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -2619,6 +2619,7 @@ static void __d_materialise_dentry(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *anon) switch_names(dentry, anon); swap(dentry->d_name.hash, anon->d_name.hash); + dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_RCUACCESS; dentry->d_parent = dentry; list_del_init(&dentry->d_child); anon->d_parent = dparent; |