linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2]v2 configfs: symlink() fixes

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Date:	Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:20:04 +0200
From:	Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@...labs.com>
To:	Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2]v2 configfs: symlink() fixes

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 03:20:44PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 02:16:16PM +0200, Louis Rilling wrote:
> > The following patchset fixes incorrect symlinks to dead items in configfs, which
> > are forbidden by specification.
> > 
> > The first patch actually prevents such dangling symlinks from being created, but
> > introduces a weird(?) behavior where a failing symlink() can make a racing
> > rmdir() fail in the symlink's parent and in the symlink's target as well. This
> > behavior is fixed with the next patch.
> 
> 	Silly question: you've tested this, right?

Yup. I tested this on Linux 2.6.26-rc5 with a modified example_configfs.c
(attached), and on a backport for 2.6.20 with my own subsystem (based on
Kerrighed http://www.kerrighed.org/wiki/index.php/SchedConfig ).

Do you have some regression tests?

sample tests for symlinks:

mkdir -p /config/03-group-children/c1/c1.1
cd /config/03-group-children/c1/c1.1

# repeatedly create and remove a symlink to self
ln -s . link
rm link
ln -s . link
rm link

mkdir /config/02-simple-children/c2

# repeatedly create and remove a symlink to another item
ln -s /config/02-simple-children/c2 link
rm link
ln -s /config/02-simple-children/c2 link
rm link

# create two links with inverted source and target
ln -s /config/02-simple-children/c2 link
ln -s . /config/02-simple-children/c2/link
rm link
rm /config/02-simple-children/c2/link

# try hard to create a link to a removed item
# last loop is to be run in a separate shell
cd /config/03-group-children/c1
while true; do mkdir c1.1 && echo mkdir ok; rmdir c1.1 && echo rmdir ok; done
# in a separate shell
cd /config/02-simple-children/c2
while true; do ln -s /config/03-group-children/c1/c1.1 link && echo ln ok && \
(ls link/ || (echo failed!!!; read foo)) && rm link; done

Louis

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