linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/7] GFS2: Fix panic in glock memory shrinker

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Date:	Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:45:20 +0100
From:	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
To:	cluster-devel@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@...hat.com>,
	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/7] GFS2: Fix panic in glock memory shrinker

From: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@...hat.com>

It is possible for gfs2_shrink_glock_memory() to check a glock for
demotion
that's in the process of being freed by gfs2_glock_put().  In this case,
gfs2_shrink_glock_memory() will acquire a new reference to this glock,
and
then try to free the glock itself when it drops the refernce.  To solve
this, gfs2_shrink_glock_memory() just needs to check if the glock is in
the process of being freed, and if so skip it without ever unlocking the
lru_lock.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@...hat.com>
Acked-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
---
 fs/gfs2/glock.c |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/glock.c b/fs/gfs2/glock.c
index fdb796c..827136e 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/glock.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/glock.c
@@ -1314,6 +1314,10 @@ static int gfs2_shrink_glock_memory(int nr, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 		list_del_init(&gl->gl_lru);
 		atomic_dec(&lru_count);
 
+		/* Check if glock is about to be freed */
+		if (atomic_read(&gl->gl_ref) == 0)
+			continue;
+
 		/* Test for being demotable */
 		if (!test_and_set_bit(GLF_LOCK, &gl->gl_flags)) {
 			gfs2_glock_hold(gl);
-- 
1.6.2.2

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