linux-kernel - Re: hugetlb locking bug.

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Date:	Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:19:01 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	William Irwin <wli@...omorphy.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: hugetlb locking bug.

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 16:57 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>
>> Because it doesn't use iget or unlock_new_inode, but rather calls
>> directly into new_inode().  It and other filesystems not using
>> unlock_new_inode will need a local copy of that logic.
>
> Is there a sane reason they do their own magic, and thus need a copy of
> the logic, instead of using the generic code that already has it?

Hmm. That all seems to be just an oversight.

Does this trivial one-liner work?

(Warning: whitespace damage and TOTALLY UNTESTED)

                      Linus

---

 fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
index b9eeb1cd03ff..a14a6e03ec33 100644
--- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
@@ -491,6 +491,7 @@ static struct inode *hugetlbfs_get_inode(struct
super_block *sb, uid_t uid,
                        inode->i_op = &page_symlink_inode_operations;
                        break;
                }
+               unlock_new_inode(inode);
        }
        return inode;
 }
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