Quoting Pekka J Enberg ([email protected]):
> From: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
>
> The revoke operation cannibalizes the revoked struct inode and removes it from
> the inode cache thus forcing subsequent callers to look up the real inode.
> Therefore we must make sure that while the revoke operation is in progress
> (e.g. flushing dirty pages to disk) no one takes a new reference to the inode
> and starts I/O on it.
>
> Cc: Alan Cox <[email protected]>
> Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
> ---
> fs/inode.c | 1 +
> fs/namei.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
> include/linux/fs.h | 3 +++
> 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Index: 2.6/include/linux/fs.h
> ===================================================================
> --- 2.6.orig/include/linux/fs.h 2007-11-23 09:58:11.000000000 +0200
> +++ 2.6/include/linux/fs.h 2007-12-14 16:40:50.000000000 +0200
> @@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ #define MS_MGC_MSK 0xffff0000
> #define S_NOCMTIME 128 /* Do not update file c/mtime */
> #define S_SWAPFILE 256 /* Do not truncate: swapon got its bmaps */
> #define S_PRIVATE 512 /* Inode is fs-internal */
> +#define S_REVOKE_LOCK 1024 /* Inode is being revoked */
>
> /*
> * Note that nosuid etc flags are inode-specific: setting some file-system
> @@ -183,6 +184,7 @@ #define MS_MGC_MSK 0xffff0000
> #define IS_NOCMTIME(inode) ((inode)->i_flags & S_NOCMTIME)
> #define IS_SWAPFILE(inode) ((inode)->i_flags & S_SWAPFILE)
> #define IS_PRIVATE(inode) ((inode)->i_flags & S_PRIVATE)
> +#define IS_REVOKE_LOCKED(inode) ((inode)->i_flags & S_REVOKE_LOCK)
>
> /* the read-only stuff doesn't really belong here, but any other place is
> probably as bad and I don't want to create yet another include file. */
> @@ -642,6 +644,7 @@ struct inode {
> struct list_head inotify_watches; /* watches on this inode */
> struct mutex inotify_mutex; /* protects the watches list */
> #endif
> + wait_queue_head_t i_revoke_wait;
>
> unsigned long i_state;
> unsigned long dirtied_when; /* jiffies of first dirtying */
> Index: 2.6/fs/inode.c
> ===================================================================
> --- 2.6.orig/fs/inode.c 2007-10-26 09:36:45.000000000 +0300
> +++ 2.6/fs/inode.c 2007-12-14 16:40:50.000000000 +0200
> @@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ memset(inode, 0, sizeof(*inode));
> INIT_RAW_PRIO_TREE_ROOT(&inode->i_data.i_mmap);
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&inode->i_data.i_mmap_nonlinear);
> i_size_ordered_init(inode);
> + init_waitqueue_head(&inode->i_revoke_wait);
> #ifdef CONFIG_INOTIFY
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&inode->inotify_watches);
> mutex_init(&inode->inotify_mutex);
> Index: 2.6/fs/namei.c
> ===================================================================
> --- 2.6.orig/fs/namei.c 2007-10-26 09:36:48.000000000 +0300
> +++ 2.6/fs/namei.c 2007-12-14 16:40:50.000000000 +0200
> @@ -785,10 +785,23 @@ static int do_lookup(struct nameidata *n
> struct path *path)
> {
> struct vfsmount *mnt = nd->mnt;
> - struct dentry *dentry = __d_lookup(nd->dentry, name);
> + struct dentry *dentry;
>
> +again:
> + dentry = __d_lookup(nd->dentry, name);
> if (!dentry)
> goto need_lookup;
> +
> + if (dentry->d_inode && IS_REVOKE_LOCKED(dentry->d_inode)) {
Hi,
not sure whether this is a problem or not, but dentry->d_inode isn't
locked here, right? So nothing is keeping do_lookup() returning
with an inode which gets revoked between here and the return 0
a few lines down?
> + int err;
> +
> + err = wait_event_interruptible(dentry->d_inode->i_revoke_wait,
> + !IS_REVOKE_LOCKED(dentry->d_inode));
> + if (err)
> + return err;
> + goto again;
> + }
> +
> if (dentry->d_op && dentry->d_op->d_revalidate)
> goto need_revalidate;
> done:
> --
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