From 2f9092e1020246168b1309b35e085ecd7ff9ff72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Woodhouse Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:18:37 +0100 Subject: Fix i_mutex vs. readdir handling in nfsd Commit 14f7dd63 ("Copy XFS readdir hack into nfsd code") introduced a bug to generic code which had been extant for a long time in the XFS version -- it started to call through into lookup_one_len() and hence into the file systems' ->lookup() methods without i_mutex held on the directory. This patch fixes it by locking the directory's i_mutex again before calling the filldir functions. The original deadlocks which commit 14f7dd63 was designed to avoid are still avoided, because they were due to fs-internal locking, not i_mutex. While we're at it, fix the return type of nfsd_buffered_readdir() which should be a __be32 not an int -- it's an NFS errno, not a Linux errno. And return nfserrno(-ENOMEM) when allocation fails, not just -ENOMEM. Sparse would have caught that, if it wasn't so busy bitching about __cold__. Commit 05f4f678 ("nfsd4: don't do lookup within readdir in recovery code") introduced a similar problem with calling lookup_one_len() without i_mutex, which this patch also addresses. To fix that, it was necessary to fix the called functions so that they expect i_mutex to be held; that part was done by J. Bruce Fields. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse Umm-I-can-live-with-that-by: Al Viro Reported-by: J. R. Okajima Tested-by: J. Bruce Fields LKML-Reference: <8036.1237474444@jrobl> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- fs/namei.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs/namei.c') diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index b8433ebfae05..78f253cd2d4f 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1248,6 +1248,8 @@ struct dentry *lookup_one_len(const char *name, struct dentry *base, int len) int err; struct qstr this; + WARN_ON_ONCE(!mutex_is_locked(&base->d_inode->i_mutex)); + err = __lookup_one_len(name, &this, base, len); if (err) return ERR_PTR(err); -- cgit v1.2.3