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authorLouis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>2008-06-16 19:01:02 +0200
committerMark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>2008-07-14 13:57:16 -0700
commit6d8344baee99402de58b5fa5dfea197242955c15 (patch)
tree6be890feb8063bdaac6efaff1044980cb76ee961 /fs/configfs/configfs_internal.h
parentb3e76af87441fc36eef3516d73ab2314e7b2d911 (diff)
configfs: Fix failing mkdir() making racing rmdir() fail
When fixing the rename() vs rmdir() deadlock, we stopped locking default groups' inodes in configfs_detach_prep(), letting racing mkdir() in default groups proceed concurrently. This enables races like below happen, which leads to a failing mkdir() making rmdir() fail, despite the group to remove having no user-created directory under it in the end. process A: process B: /* PWD=A/B */ mkdir("C") make_item("C") attach_group("C") rmdir("A") detach_prep("A") detach_prep("B") error because of "C" return -ENOTEMPTY attach_group("C/D") error (eg -ENOMEM) return -ENOMEM This patch prevents such scenarii by making rmdir() wait as long as detach_prep() fails because a racing mkdir() is in the middle of attach_group(). To achieve this, mkdir() sets a flag CONFIGFS_USET_IN_MKDIR in parent's configfs_dirent before calling attach_group(), and clears the flag once attach_group() is done. detach_prep() fails with -EAGAIN whenever the flag is hit and returns the guilty inode's mutex so that rmdir() can wait on it. Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/configfs/configfs_internal.h')
-rw-r--r--fs/configfs/configfs_internal.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/configfs/configfs_internal.h b/fs/configfs/configfs_internal.h
index 5a33b58e66da..da015c12e3ea 100644
--- a/fs/configfs/configfs_internal.h
+++ b/fs/configfs/configfs_internal.h
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ struct configfs_dirent {
#define CONFIGFS_USET_DIR 0x0040
#define CONFIGFS_USET_DEFAULT 0x0080
#define CONFIGFS_USET_DROPPING 0x0100
+#define CONFIGFS_USET_IN_MKDIR 0x0200
#define CONFIGFS_NOT_PINNED (CONFIGFS_ITEM_ATTR)
extern spinlock_t configfs_dirent_lock;