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This patch fixes the deadlock between racing sys_rename() and configfs_rmdir(). The idea is to avoid locking i_mutexes of default groups in configfs_detach_prep(), and rely instead on the new configfs_dirent_lock to protect against configfs_dirent's linkage mutations. To ensure that an mkdir() racing with rmdir() will not create new items in a to-be-removed default group, we make configfs_new_dirent() check for the CONFIGFS_USET_DROPPING flag right before linking the new dirent, and return error if the flag is set. This makes racing mkdir()/symlink()/dir_open() fail in places where errors could already happen, resp. in (attach_item()|attach_group())/create_link()/new_dirent(). configfs_depend() remains safe since it locks all the path from configfs root, and is thus mutually exclusive with rmdir(). An advantage of this is that now detach_groups() unconditionnaly takes the default groups i_mutex, which makes it more consistent with populate_groups(). Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> |
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| Makefile | ||
| configfs_internal.h | ||
| dir.c | ||
| file.c | ||
| inode.c | ||
| item.c | ||
| mount.c | ||
| symlink.c | ||