* [PATCH] igrab() should check for I_CLEAR
@ 2006-12-19 9:57 Jan Blunck
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From: Jan Blunck @ 2006-12-19 9:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton; +Cc: Linux-Kernel Mailinglist, Vandana Rungta
When igrab() is calling __iget() on an inode it should check if clear_inode()
has been called on the inode already. Otherwise there is a race window between
clear_inode() and destroy_inode() where igrab() calls __iget() which leads to
already free inodes on the inode lists.
Signed-off-by: Vandana Rungta <vandana@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
---
fs/inode.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: linux-2.6/fs/inode.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/inode.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/inode.c
@@ -709,7 +709,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(iunique);
struct inode *igrab(struct inode *inode)
{
spin_lock(&inode_lock);
- if (!(inode->i_state & (I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE)))
+ if (!(inode->i_state & (I_FREEING|I_CLEAR|I_WILL_FREE)))
__iget(inode);
else
/*
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