From d2a85164aaa8d514ef5efbf5d05746e85dd13ddd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:10:11 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] fuse: fix handling of moved directory Fuse considered it an error (EIO) if lookup returned a directory inode, to which a dentry already refered. This is because directory aliases are not allowed. But in a network filesystem this could happen legitimately, if a directory is moved on a remote client. This patch attempts to relax the restriction by trying to first evict the offending alias from the cache. If this fails, it still returns an error (EBUSY). A rarer situation is if an mkdir races with an indenpendent lookup, which finds the newly created directory already moved. In this situation the mkdir should return success, but that would be incorrect, since the dentry cannot be instantiated, so return EBUSY. Previously checking for a directory alias and instantiation of the dentry weren't done atomically in lookup/mkdir, hence two such calls racing with each other could create aliased directories. To prevent this introduce a new per-connection mutex: fuse_conn->inst_mutex, which is taken for instantiations with a directory inode. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/fuse/fuse_i.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs/fuse/fuse_i.h') diff --git a/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h b/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h index 69c7750d55b..91edb8932d9 100644 --- a/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h +++ b/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h @@ -239,6 +239,9 @@ struct fuse_conn { /** Lock protecting accessess to members of this structure */ spinlock_t lock; + /** Mutex protecting against directory alias creation */ + struct mutex inst_mutex; + /** Refcount */ atomic_t count; -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2