From 8019ad13ef7f64be44d4f892af9c840179009254 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 11:28:31 +0100 Subject: futex: Fix inode life-time issue As reported by Jann, ihold() does not in fact guarantee inode persistence. And instead of making it so, replace the usage of inode pointers with a per boot, machine wide, unique inode identifier. This sequence number is global, but shared (file backed) futexes are rare enough that this should not become a performance issue. Reported-by: Jann Horn Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) --- fs/inode.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'fs/inode.c') diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c index 7d57068b6b7a..93d9252a00ab 100644 --- a/fs/inode.c +++ b/fs/inode.c @@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ int inode_init_always(struct super_block *sb, struct inode *inode) inode->i_sb = sb; inode->i_blkbits = sb->s_blocksize_bits; inode->i_flags = 0; + atomic64_set(&inode->i_sequence, 0); atomic_set(&inode->i_count, 1); inode->i_op = &empty_iops; inode->i_fop = &no_open_fops; -- cgit v1.2.3