3.6.11.2 stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Al Viro [ Upstream commit 7ea600b5314529f9d1b9d6d3c41cb26fce6a7a4a ] ... lest we get livelocks between path_is_under() and d_path() and friends. The thing is, wrt fairness lglocks are more similar to rwsems than to rwlocks; it is possible to have thread B spin on attempt to take lock shared while thread A is already holding it shared, if B is on lower-numbered CPU than A and there's a thread C spinning on attempt to take the same lock exclusive. As the result, we need consistent ordering between vfsmount_lock (lglock) and rename_lock (seq_lock), even though everything that takes both is going to take vfsmount_lock only shared. Spotted-by: Brad Spengler Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- fs/dcache.c | 16 +++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index 693f95b..2488c47 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -2583,7 +2583,6 @@ static int prepend_path(const struct path *path, bool slash = false; int error = 0; - br_read_lock(&vfsmount_lock); while (dentry != root->dentry || vfsmnt != root->mnt) { struct dentry * parent; @@ -2613,8 +2612,6 @@ static int prepend_path(const struct path *path, if (!error && !slash) error = prepend(buffer, buflen, "/", 1); -out: - br_read_unlock(&vfsmount_lock); return error; global_root: @@ -2631,7 +2628,7 @@ global_root: error = prepend(buffer, buflen, "/", 1); if (!error) error = is_mounted(vfsmnt) ? 1 : 2; - goto out; + return error; } /** @@ -2658,9 +2655,11 @@ char *__d_path(const struct path *path, int error; prepend(&res, &buflen, "\0", 1); + br_read_lock(&vfsmount_lock); write_seqlock(&rename_lock); error = prepend_path(path, root, &res, &buflen); write_sequnlock(&rename_lock); + br_read_unlock(&vfsmount_lock); if (error < 0) return ERR_PTR(error); @@ -2677,9 +2676,11 @@ char *d_absolute_path(const struct path *path, int error; prepend(&res, &buflen, "\0", 1); + br_read_lock(&vfsmount_lock); write_seqlock(&rename_lock); error = prepend_path(path, &root, &res, &buflen); write_sequnlock(&rename_lock); + br_read_unlock(&vfsmount_lock); if (error > 1) error = -EINVAL; @@ -2743,11 +2744,13 @@ char *d_path(const struct path *path, char *buf, int buflen) return path->dentry->d_op->d_dname(path->dentry, buf, buflen); get_fs_root(current->fs, &root); + br_read_lock(&vfsmount_lock); write_seqlock(&rename_lock); error = path_with_deleted(path, &root, &res, &buflen); + write_sequnlock(&rename_lock); + br_read_unlock(&vfsmount_lock); if (error < 0) res = ERR_PTR(error); - write_sequnlock(&rename_lock); path_put(&root); return res; } @@ -2902,6 +2905,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(getcwd, char __user *, buf, unsigned long, size) get_fs_root_and_pwd(current->fs, &root, &pwd); error = -ENOENT; + br_read_lock(&vfsmount_lock); write_seqlock(&rename_lock); if (!d_unlinked(pwd.dentry)) { unsigned long len; @@ -2911,6 +2915,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(getcwd, char __user *, buf, unsigned long, size) prepend(&cwd, &buflen, "\0", 1); error = prepend_path(&pwd, &root, &cwd, &buflen); write_sequnlock(&rename_lock); + br_read_unlock(&vfsmount_lock); if (error < 0) goto out; @@ -2931,6 +2936,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(getcwd, char __user *, buf, unsigned long, size) } } else { write_sequnlock(&rename_lock); + br_read_unlock(&vfsmount_lock); } out: -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/