Russ Weight <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This patch sets the MS_ACTIVE bit in isofs_fill_super() prior to calling
> iget() or iput(). This eliminates a race condition between mount
> (for isofs) and kswapd that results in a system panic.
>
> Signed-off-by: Russ Weight <[email protected]>
>
> --- linux-2.6.12-rc1/fs/isofs/inode.c 2005-03-17 17:34:36.000000000
> -0800
> +++ linux-2.6.12-rc1-isofsfix/fs/isofs/inode.c 2005-03-22
> 15:29:51.945607217 -0800
> @@ -820,6 +820,7 @@
> * the s_rock flag. Once we have the final s_rock value,
> * we then decide whether to use the Joliet descriptor.
> */
> + s->s_flags |= MS_ACTIVE;
> inode = isofs_iget(s, sbi->s_firstdatazone, 0);
>
> /*
> @@ -909,6 +910,7 @@
> kfree(opt.iocharset);
> kfree(sbi);
> s->s_fs_info = NULL;
> + s->s_flags &= ~MS_ACTIVE;
> return -EINVAL;
> }
>
The patch is obviously safe enough, but seems a bit kludgy.
The basic problem here appears to be that isofs is doing iget/iput in
->fill_super before MS_ACTIVE is set and the inode freeing code
(generic_forget_inode) doesn't expect that to happen, yes?
I wonder if it would make more sense for all the ->fill_super callers to
set MS_ACTIVE prior to calling ->fill_super(), and clear MS_ACTIVE if
fill_super() failed?
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