linux-kernel - Re: configfs: Q: item leak in a failing configfs_attach

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Message-ID: <20080624213439.GB2785@mail.oracle.com>
Date:	Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:34:39 -0700
From:	Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@...cle.com>
To:	Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@...labs.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com
Subject: Re: configfs: Q: item leak in a failing configfs_attach_group()?

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 08:04:56PM +0200, Louis Rilling wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:10:51AM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 04:16:49PM +0200, Louis Rilling wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I'd like an opinion on the following scenario:
> > > 
> > > process 1: 					process 2:
> > > configfs_mkdir("A")
> > >   attach_group("A")
> > >     attach_item("A")
> > >       d_instantiate("A")
> > >     populate_groups("A")
> > >       mutex_lock("A")
> > >       attach_group("A/B")
> > >         attach_item("A")
> > >           d_instantiate("A/B")
> > > 						mkdir("A/B/C")
> > > 						  do_path_lookup("A/B/C", LOOKUP_PARENT)
> > 
> > 					This has to sleep until
> > 					configfs_mkdir("A") finishes.
> > 					It's waiting on A->d_parent's
> > 					i_mutex, which is held by
> > 					sys_mkdirat().
> 
> Can you be more precise? I don't see where do_path_lookup() locks an inode

	It doesn't.  It's in lookup_create(), which takes the mutex on the
parent of 'A'.  Note that the end of sys_mkdirat() explicitly drops that
mutex - it couldn't do so if it hadn't been taken :-)

Joel

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Joel Becker
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