configfs: provide exclusion between IO and removals
commit b0841eefd9693827afb9888235e26ddd098f9cef upstream. Make sure that attribute methods are not called after the item has been removed from the tree. To do so, we * at the point of no return in removals, grab ->frag_sem exclusive and mark the fragment dead. * call the methods of attributes with ->frag_sem taken shared and only after having verified that the fragment is still alive. The main benefit is for method instances - they are guaranteed that the objects they are accessing *and* all ancestors are still there. Another win is that we don't need to bother with extra refcount on config_item when opening a file - the item will be alive for as long as it stays in the tree, and we won't touch it/attributes/any associated data after it's been removed from the tree. Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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