From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
hch@infradead.org, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Subject: [PATCH] fs: Make sure data stored into inode is properly seen before unlocking new inode
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 13:41:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1252410063-26872-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> (raw)
In theory it could happen that on one CPU we initialize a new inode but clearing
of I_NEW | I_LOCK gets reordered before some of the initialization. Thus on
another CPU we return not fully uptodate inode from iget_locked().
This seems to fix a corruption issue on ext3 mounted over NFS.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
---
fs/inode.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
Since Al doesn't seem to be online, does anybody else have opinion on this
patch? I can merge it via my tree but I'd like to get a review from someone
else.
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 901bad1..e9a8e77 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -696,6 +696,7 @@ void unlock_new_inode(struct inode *inode)
* just created it (so there can be no old holders
* that haven't tested I_LOCK).
*/
+ smp_mb();
WARN_ON((inode->i_state & (I_LOCK|I_NEW)) != (I_LOCK|I_NEW));
inode->i_state &= ~(I_LOCK|I_NEW);
wake_up_inode(inode);
--
1.6.0.2
next reply other threads:[~2009-09-08 11:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-08 11:41 Jan Kara [this message]
2009-09-08 18:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-09 22:03 ` Andrew Morton
2009-09-10 9:07 ` Jan Kara
2009-09-12 15:06 ` Al Viro
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