On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 12:24:37PM +1100, Greg Banks wrote:
> G'day,
>
> The attached patch fixes a bug in the VFS code which causes
> "Busy inodes after unmount" and a subsequent oops.
Applied, thanks.
>
> Greg.
> --
> Greg Banks, R&D Software Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group.
> I don't speak for SGI.
>
> Following an absolute symlink opens a window during which the
> filesystem containing the symlink has an outstanding dentry count
> and no outstanding vfsmount count. A umount() of the filesystem can
> (incorrectly) proceed, resulting in the "Busy inodes after unmount"
> message and an oops shortly thereafter.
>
> Systems using autofs-controlled NFS mounts are especially vulnerable,
> as autofs both increases the number of unmounts happening and does NFS
> mounting in response to lookups which can result in multiple-second
> vulnerability windows. However the bug could happen on any filesystem.
>
> This patch adds a mntget()/mntput() pair around the link following code
> (as the 2.6 code does). Attempts to umount() during link following
> now return EBUSY.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <[email protected]>
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