Hi,
I'm developing a custom kernel on top of Ingo's -rt patch. My kernel
makes race conditions in the vanilla kernel show up very well :-)
I just hit a bug, actually a page fault in fs/sysfs/dir.c in
sysfs_readdir:
for (p=q->next; p!= &parent_sd->s_children; p=p->next) {
struct sysfs_dirent *next;
const char * name;
int len;
next = list_entry(p, struct sysfs_dirent,
s_sibling);
if (!next->s_element)
continue;
name = sysfs_get_name(next);
len = strlen(name);
if (next->s_dentry)
ino = next->s_dentry->d_inode->i_ino;
^^^^
This is where I had a bad pointer reference.
else
ino = iunique(sysfs_sb, 2);
if (filldir(dirent, name, len, filp->f_pos, ino,
dt_type(next)) < 0)
return 0;
Looking at this code, I don't see anything protecting the s_dentry. For
example, couldn't the following happen:
sysfs_create_dir is called, which calls create_dir. Now we create a
dentry with no d_inode. In sysfs_make_dirent which calls
sysfs_new_dirent which adds to the parents s_children. Then
sysfs_make_dirent sets s_dentry = dentry (the one that was just made
with no d_inode assigned yet). Then create_dir calls sysfs_create which
finally assigns the d_inode.
So, either there is some hidden protection and my modification to the
kernel has caused this to bug, or we have just been lucky the whole time
in the vanilla kernel.
-- Steve
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