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| author | Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> | 2011-02-10 15:01:20 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-02-11 16:12:19 -0800 |
| commit | d863b50ab01333659314c2034890cb76d9fdc3c7 (patch) | |
| tree | 88d27ed4717bb49ba696f2efb5ef024388412af3 /kernel/ptrace.c | |
| parent | 2dab597441667d6c04451a7dcf215241ad4c74f6 (diff) | |
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vfs: call rcu_barrier after ->kill_sb()
In commit fa0d7e3de6d6 ("fs: icache RCU free inodes"), we use rcu free
inode instead of freeing the inode directly. It causes a crash when we
rmmod immediately after we umount the volume[1].
So we need to call rcu_barrier after we kill_sb so that the inode is
freed before we do rmmod. The idea is inspired by Aneesh Kumar.
rcu_barrier will wait for all callbacks to end before preceding. The
original patch was done by Tao Ma, but synchronize_rcu() is not enough
here.
1. http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=129680863330185&w=2
Tested-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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