linux-ext4 - [PATCH] ext4: remove static from struct match

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Date:	Fri, 21 Sep 2012 22:21:00 -0300
From:	Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@...onical.com>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: remove static from struct match_token used in token2str

There is no reason to use static there, and it will cause issues when
reading /proc/fs/ext4/<partition>/options concurrently.

Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@...onical.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # 3.4+
---
 fs/ext4/super.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

The problem is easy to reproduce, for example running:
$ cat /proc/fs/ext4/<partition>/options > options.txt
$ while diff /proc/fs/ext4/<partition>/options options.txt; do true; done
- And concurrently on another terminal:
$ while diff /proc/fs/ext4/<partition>/options options.txt; do true; done

One of the diff loops will get incomplete options contents because of
the issue, and exit.

I also believe the same problem is the cause of the following bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1053019, that happened while running
test 234 from xfstests.

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 41598ee..975405c 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -1748,7 +1748,7 @@ static inline void ext4_show_quota_options(struct seq_file *seq,
 
 static const char *token2str(int token)
 {
-	static const struct match_token *t;
+	const struct match_token *t;
 
 	for (t = tokens; t->token != Opt_err; t++)
 		if (t->token == token && !strchr(t->pattern, '='))
-- 
1.7.9.5

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