diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index ec6a9392a1738317cdd8042fcd2f418865072396..4e78ce6778435aacf321de21baffe4095739f2e9 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -437,8 +437,11 @@ grab BKL for cases when we close a file that had been opened r/w, but that can and should be done using the internal locking with smaller critical areas). Current worst offender is ext2_get_block()... -->fasync() is a mess. This area needs a big cleanup and that will probably -affect locking. +->fasync() is called without BKL protection, and is responsible for +maintaining the FASYNC bit in filp->f_flags. Most instances call +fasync_helper(), which does that maintenance, so it's not normally +something one needs to worry about. Return values > 0 will be mapped to +zero in the VFS layer. ->readdir() and ->ioctl() on directories must be changed. Ideally we would move ->readdir() to inode_operations and use a separate method for directory diff --git a/fs/fcntl.c b/fs/fcntl.c index 04df8570a2d23c88f6340dd74bfb8bd7607a2cc8..431bb645927363c714d375d067e0f09365ed8e66 100644 --- a/fs/fcntl.c +++ b/fs/fcntl.c @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(dup, unsigned int, fildes) return ret; } -#define SETFL_MASK (O_APPEND | O_NONBLOCK | O_NDELAY | FASYNC | O_DIRECT | O_NOATIME) +#define SETFL_MASK (O_APPEND | O_NONBLOCK | O_NDELAY | O_DIRECT | O_NOATIME) static int setfl(int fd, struct file * filp, unsigned long arg) { @@ -177,23 +177,19 @@ static int setfl(int fd, struct file * filp, unsigned long arg) return error; /* - * We still need a lock here for now to keep multiple FASYNC calls - * from racing with each other. + * ->fasync() is responsible for setting the FASYNC bit. */ - lock_kernel(); - if ((arg ^ filp->f_flags) & FASYNC) { - if (filp->f_op && filp->f_op->fasync) { - error = filp->f_op->fasync(fd, filp, (arg & FASYNC) != 0); - if (error < 0) - goto out; - } + if (((arg ^ filp->f_flags) & FASYNC) && filp->f_op && + filp->f_op->fasync) { + error = filp->f_op->fasync(fd, filp, (arg & FASYNC) != 0); + if (error < 0) + goto out; } - spin_lock(&filp->f_lock); filp->f_flags = (arg & SETFL_MASK) | (filp->f_flags & ~SETFL_MASK); spin_unlock(&filp->f_lock); + out: - unlock_kernel(); return error; } @@ -518,7 +514,7 @@ static DEFINE_RWLOCK(fasync_lock); static struct kmem_cache *fasync_cache __read_mostly; /* - * fasync_helper() is used by some character device drivers (mainly mice) + * fasync_helper() is used by almost all character device drivers * to set up the fasync queue. It returns negative on error, 0 if it did * no changes and positive if it added/deleted the entry. */ @@ -557,6 +553,13 @@ int fasync_helper(int fd, struct file * filp, int on, struct fasync_struct **fap result = 1; } out: + /* Fix up FASYNC bit while still holding fasync_lock */ + spin_lock(&filp->f_lock); + if (on) + filp->f_flags |= FASYNC; + else + filp->f_flags &= ~FASYNC; + spin_unlock(&filp->f_lock); write_unlock_irq(&fasync_lock); return result; } diff --git a/fs/ioctl.c b/fs/ioctl.c index 421aab465dab69ff3d86c2576f1f544f3e48310b..e8e89edba576d43480611a9f9cf0ca66b62d99d7 100644 --- a/fs/ioctl.c +++ b/fs/ioctl.c @@ -427,19 +427,11 @@ static int ioctl_fioasync(unsigned int fd, struct file *filp, /* Did FASYNC state change ? */ if ((flag ^ filp->f_flags) & FASYNC) { if (filp->f_op && filp->f_op->fasync) + /* fasync() adjusts filp->f_flags */ error = filp->f_op->fasync(fd, filp, on); else error = -ENOTTY; } - if (error) - return error; - - spin_lock(&filp->f_lock); - if (on) - filp->f_flags |= FASYNC; - else - filp->f_flags &= ~FASYNC; - spin_unlock(&filp->f_lock); return error; } @@ -507,10 +499,7 @@ int do_vfs_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int fd, unsigned int cmd, break; case FIOASYNC: - /* BKL needed to avoid races tweaking f_flags */ - lock_kernel(); error = ioctl_fioasync(fd, filp, argp); - unlock_kernel(); break; case FIOQSIZE: diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c index 35dd7371752a9448ff6162af9255ac0b0891ec35..0f75746ab06e29508c028592b4b304b692f00d4b 100644 --- a/net/socket.c +++ b/net/socket.c @@ -1030,6 +1030,13 @@ static int sock_fasync(int fd, struct file *filp, int on) lock_sock(sk); + spin_lock(&filp->f_lock); + if (on) + filp->f_flags |= FASYNC; + else + filp->f_flags &= ~FASYNC; + spin_unlock(&filp->f_lock); + prev = &(sock->fasync_list); for (fa = *prev; fa != NULL; prev = &fa->fa_next, fa = *prev)