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) --- include/linux/fs.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/fs.h') diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 3cd4fe6b845e..abedbffe2c9e 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -698,6 +698,7 @@ struct inode { struct rcu_head i_rcu; }; atomic64_t i_version; + atomic64_t i_sequence; /* see futex */ atomic_t i_count; atomic_t i_dio_count; atomic_t i_writecount; -- cgit v1.2.3