From 57439f878afafefad8836ebf5c49da2a0a746105 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "npiggin@suse.de" Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:02:14 +1000 Subject: 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 Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: John Stultz Cc: Frank Mayhar Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/dcache.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs/dcache.c') diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index d96047b4a633..c8c78ba07827 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -590,6 +590,8 @@ static void prune_dcache(int count) up_read(&sb->s_umount); } spin_lock(&sb_lock); + /* lock was dropped, must reset next */ + list_safe_reset_next(sb, n, s_list); count -= pruned; __put_super(sb); /* more work left to do? */ -- cgit v1.2.3