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    Fix sget() race with failing mount · 7a4dec53
    Al Viro 提交于
    If sget() finds a matching superblock being set up, it'll
    grab an active reference to it and grab s_umount.  That's
    fine - we'll wait for completion of foofs_get_sb() that way.
    However, if said foofs_get_sb() fails we'll end up holding
    the halfway-created superblock.  deactivate_locked_super()
    called by foofs_get_sb() will just unlock the sucker since
    we are holding another active reference to it.
    
    What we need is a way to tell if superblock has been successfully
    set up.  Unfortunately, neither ->s_root nor the check for
    MS_ACTIVE quite fit.  Cheap and easy way, suitable for backport:
    new flag set by the (only) caller of ->get_sb().  If that flag
    isn't present by the time sget() grabbed s_umount on preexisting
    superblock it has found, it's seeing a stillborn and should
    just bury it with deactivate_locked_super() (and repeat the search).
    
    Longer term we want to set that flag in ->get_sb() instances (and
    check for it to distinguish between "sget() found us a live sb"
    and "sget() has allocated an sb, we need to set it up" in there,
    instead of checking ->s_root as we do now).
    Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    Cc: stable@kernel.org
    7a4dec53
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