linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] vfs fixes

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Date:   Tue, 11 Apr 2017 15:02:16 -0600
From:   Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] vfs fixes

On Apr 11, 2017, at 12:48 AM, Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 11:10:19PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
>> It looks odd because the lock part is
>> 
>>                if (flags & LOOKUP_RCU)
>>                        rcu_read_lock();
>> 
>> ie it's locked conditionally, and the code in between does not seem to
>> return every time LOOKUP_RCU is clear.
>> 
>> So mind giving this a look? Is it as obviously buggy as I think it is,
>> or is there something I'm missing?
> 
> It's more obscure than I would like, and can grow into a bug one day, but...
> nd_jump_root() can only return non-zero if you have LOOKUP_RCU.  So without
> LOOKUP_RCU in flags, this
>                if (flags & LOOKUP_RCU)
>                        rcu_read_lock();
>                set_root(nd);
>                if (likely(!nd_jump_root(nd)))
>                        return s;
>                nd->root.mnt = NULL;
>                rcu_read_unlock();
> won't get to that rcu_read_unlock() at all - it'll get zero from nd_jump_root()
> and proceed to return s;

So possibly a comment like the following would be helpful:

		rcu_read_unlock(); /* nd_jump_root() returns if !LOOKUP_RCU */

so that us mere mortals have a chance to understand this in the future?

Cheers, Andreas






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