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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2006-06-22 14:47:28 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-06-22 15:05:57 -0700
commit0feae5c47aabdde59cbbec32d150e17102de37f0 (patch)
tree244f742d943a0516921180b840419fdc329075f0 /include
parentde047c1bcd7f7bcfbdc29eb5b439fb332594da3f (diff)
[PATCH] Fix dcache race during umount
The race is that the shrink_dcache_memory shrinker could get called while a filesystem is being unmounted, and could try to prune a dentry belonging to that filesystem. If it does, then it will call in to iput on the inode while the dentry is no longer able to be found by the umounting process. If iput takes a while, generic_shutdown_super could get all the way though shrink_dcache_parent and shrink_dcache_anon and invalidate_inodes without ever waiting on this particular inode. Eventually the superblock gets freed anyway and if the iput tried to touch it (which some filesystems certainly do), it will lose. The promised "Self-destruct in 5 seconds" doesn't lead to a nice day. The race is closed by holding s_umount while calling prune_one_dentry on someone else's dentry. As a down_read_trylock is used, shrink_dcache_memory will no longer try to prune the dentry of a filesystem that is being unmounted, and unmount will not be able to start until any such active prune_one_dentry completes. This requires that prune_dcache *knows* which filesystem (if any) it is doing the prune on behalf of so that it can be careful of other filesystems. shrink_dcache_memory isn't called it on behalf of any filesystem, and so is careful of everything. shrink_dcache_anon is now passed a super_block rather than the s_anon list out of the superblock, so it can get the s_anon list itself, and can pass the superblock down to prune_dcache. If prune_dcache finds a dentry that it cannot free, it leaves it where it is (at the tail of the list) and exits, on the assumption that some other thread will be removing that dentry soon. To try to make sure that some work gets done, a limited number of dnetries which are untouchable are skipped over while choosing the dentry to work on. I believe this race was first found by Kirill Korotaev. Cc: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Acked-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Cc: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/dcache.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h
index 836325ee093..46d0e079735 100644
--- a/include/linux/dcache.h
+++ b/include/linux/dcache.h
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ extern struct dentry * d_alloc_anon(struct inode *);
extern struct dentry * d_splice_alias(struct inode *, struct dentry *);
extern void shrink_dcache_sb(struct super_block *);
extern void shrink_dcache_parent(struct dentry *);
-extern void shrink_dcache_anon(struct hlist_head *);
+extern void shrink_dcache_anon(struct super_block *);
extern int d_invalidate(struct dentry *);
/* only used at mount-time */