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-rw-r--r--fs/dcache.c58
-rw-r--r--fs/internal.h1
-rw-r--r--fs/libfs.c4
-rw-r--r--include/linux/dcache.h1
4 files changed, 55 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 817c243c1ff1..b7eddfd35aa5 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -507,6 +507,44 @@ void d_drop(struct dentry *dentry)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_drop);
+static inline void dentry_unlist(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *parent)
+{
+ struct dentry *next;
+ /*
+ * Inform d_walk() and shrink_dentry_list() that we are no longer
+ * attached to the dentry tree
+ */
+ dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED;
+ if (unlikely(list_empty(&dentry->d_child)))
+ return;
+ __list_del_entry(&dentry->d_child);
+ /*
+ * Cursors can move around the list of children. While we'd been
+ * a normal list member, it didn't matter - ->d_child.next would've
+ * been updated. However, from now on it won't be and for the
+ * things like d_walk() it might end up with a nasty surprise.
+ * Normally d_walk() doesn't care about cursors moving around -
+ * ->d_lock on parent prevents that and since a cursor has no children
+ * of its own, we get through it without ever unlocking the parent.
+ * There is one exception, though - if we ascend from a child that
+ * gets killed as soon as we unlock it, the next sibling is found
+ * using the value left in its ->d_child.next. And if _that_
+ * pointed to a cursor, and cursor got moved (e.g. by lseek())
+ * before d_walk() regains parent->d_lock, we'll end up skipping
+ * everything the cursor had been moved past.
+ *
+ * Solution: make sure that the pointer left behind in ->d_child.next
+ * points to something that won't be moving around. I.e. skip the
+ * cursors.
+ */
+ while (dentry->d_child.next != &parent->d_subdirs) {
+ next = list_entry(dentry->d_child.next, struct dentry, d_child);
+ if (likely(!(next->d_flags & DCACHE_DENTRY_CURSOR)))
+ break;
+ dentry->d_child.next = next->d_child.next;
+ }
+}
+
static void __dentry_kill(struct dentry *dentry)
{
struct dentry *parent = NULL;
@@ -532,12 +570,7 @@ static void __dentry_kill(struct dentry *dentry)
}
/* if it was on the hash then remove it */
__d_drop(dentry);
- __list_del_entry(&dentry->d_child);
- /*
- * Inform d_walk() that we are no longer attached to the
- * dentry tree
- */
- dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED;
+ dentry_unlist(dentry, parent);
if (parent)
spin_unlock(&parent->d_lock);
dentry_iput(dentry);
@@ -1203,6 +1236,9 @@ resume:
struct dentry *dentry = list_entry(tmp, struct dentry, d_child);
next = tmp->next;
+ if (unlikely(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_DENTRY_CURSOR))
+ continue;
+
spin_lock_nested(&dentry->d_lock, DENTRY_D_LOCK_NESTED);
ret = enter(data, dentry);
@@ -1651,6 +1687,16 @@ struct dentry *d_alloc(struct dentry * parent, const struct qstr *name)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_alloc);
+struct dentry *d_alloc_cursor(struct dentry * parent)
+{
+ struct dentry *dentry = __d_alloc(parent->d_sb, NULL);
+ if (dentry) {
+ dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_RCUACCESS | DCACHE_DENTRY_CURSOR;
+ dentry->d_parent = dget(parent);
+ }
+ return dentry;
+}
+
/**
* d_alloc_pseudo - allocate a dentry (for lookup-less filesystems)
* @sb: the superblock
diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h
index b71deeecea17..f57ced528cde 100644
--- a/fs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/internal.h
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ extern int invalidate_inodes(struct super_block *, bool);
extern struct dentry *__d_alloc(struct super_block *, const struct qstr *);
extern int d_set_mounted(struct dentry *dentry);
extern long prune_dcache_sb(struct super_block *sb, struct shrink_control *sc);
+extern struct dentry *d_alloc_cursor(struct dentry *);
/*
* read_write.c
diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index 3db2721144c2..cedeacbae303 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -71,9 +71,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_lookup);
int dcache_dir_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
- static struct qstr cursor_name = QSTR_INIT(".", 1);
-
- file->private_data = d_alloc(file->f_path.dentry, &cursor_name);
+ file->private_data = d_alloc_cursor(file->f_path.dentry);
return file->private_data ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
}
diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h
index 484c8792da82..bcd0c64e3ed8 100644
--- a/include/linux/dcache.h
+++ b/include/linux/dcache.h
@@ -212,6 +212,7 @@ struct dentry_operations {
#define DCACHE_OP_REAL 0x08000000
#define DCACHE_PAR_LOOKUP 0x10000000 /* being looked up (with parent locked shared) */
+#define DCACHE_DENTRY_CURSOR 0x20000000
extern seqlock_t rename_lock;