linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] SUNRPC: skip dead but not buried clients on PipeFS events

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Message-ID: <4F98EBD1.2070808@parallels.com>
Date:	Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:31:45 +0400
From:	Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@...allels.com>
To:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
CC:	"linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"devel@...nvz.org" <devel@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] SUNRPC: skip dead but not buried clients on PipeFS
 events

25.04.2012 21:30, J. Bruce Fields написал:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 06:11:02PM +0400, Stanislav Kinsbursky wrote:
>> v2: atomic_inc_return() was replaced by atomic_inc_not_zero().
>>
>> These clients can't be safely dereferenced if their counter in 0.
> I'm pretty confused by how these notifiers work....
>
> rpc_release_client decrements cl_count to zero temporarily, to have it
> immediately re-incremented by rpc_free_auth.
>
> So if we're called concurrently with rpc_release_client then it's sort
> of random whether someone gets this callback.
>
> Is that a problem?
>
> Also, is this an existing bug?  (In which case Trond should take it
> now.)

Sorry, I was mistaken in previous letter.
Yes, this is an existent bug.
I.e. without this patch notifier can dereference a client, which is 
actually dead already, but haven't deleted itself from the client's list.
And then notifier will try to work with this client and even release it 
at the end.

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