提交 0429c2b5 编写于 作者: J Jeff Layton

locks: use cmpxchg to assign i_flctx pointer

During the v3.20/v4.0 cycle, I had originally had the code manage the
inode->i_flctx pointer using a compare-and-swap operation instead of the
i_lock.

Sasha Levin though hit a problem while testing with trinity that made me
believe that that wasn't safe. At the time, changing the code to protect
the i_flctx pointer seemed to fix the issue, but I now think that was
just coincidence.

The issue was likely the same race that Kirill Shutemov hit while
testing the pre-rc1 v4.0 kernel and that Linus spotted. Due to the way
that the spinlock was dropped in the middle of flock_lock_file, you
could end up with multiple flock locks for the same struct file on the
inode.

Reinstate the use of a CAS operation to assign this pointer since it's
likely to be more efficient and gets the i_lock completely out of the
file locking business.
Signed-off-by: NJeff Layton <jeff.layton@primarydata.com>
上级 3648888e
......@@ -223,14 +223,7 @@ locks_get_lock_context(struct inode *inode, int type)
* Assign the pointer if it's not already assigned. If it is, then
* free the context we just allocated.
*/
spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
if (likely(!inode->i_flctx)) {
inode->i_flctx = new;
new = NULL;
}
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
if (new)
if (cmpxchg(&inode->i_flctx, NULL, new))
kmem_cache_free(flctx_cache, new);
out:
return inode->i_flctx;
......
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