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Merge tag 'configfs-for-4.12' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/configfs

Pull configfs updates from Christoph Hellwig: "A fix from Nic for a race seen in production (including a stable tag). And while I'm sending you this I'm also sneaking in a trivial new helper from Bart so that we don't need inter-tree dependencies for the next merge window" * tag 'configfs-for-4.12' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/configfs: configfs: Introduce config_item_get_unless_zero() configfs: Fix race between create_link and configfs_rmdir

Linus Torvalds committed 9 years ago

Commit ab2789b2 parents 20223f0 19e72d33 files · +11 −3Browse files

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3 files
  1. fs/configfs/item.c +8 −0
  2. fs/configfs/symlink.c +1 −2
  3. include/linux/configfs.h +2 −1
fs/configfs/item.c+8−0
@@ -138,6 +138,14 @@ struct config_item *config_item_get(struct config_item *item) · 137 unmodified lines
138138 }
139139 EXPORT_SYMBOL(config_item_get);
140140
141+struct config_item *config_item_get_unless_zero(struct config_item *item)
142+{
143+ if (item && kref_get_unless_zero(&item->ci_kref))
144+ return item;
145+ return NULL;
146+}
147+EXPORT_SYMBOL(config_item_get_unless_zero);
148+
141149 static void config_item_cleanup(struct config_item *item)
142150 {
143151 struct config_item_type *t = item->ci_type;
fs/configfs/symlink.c+1−2
@@ -83,14 +83,13 @@ static int create_link(struct config_item *parent_item, · 82 unmodified lines
8383 ret = -ENOMEM;
8484 sl = kmalloc(sizeof(struct configfs_symlink), GFP_KERNEL);
8585 if (sl) {
86− sl->sl_target = config_item_get(item);
8786 spin_lock(&configfs_dirent_lock);
8887 if (target_sd->s_type & CONFIGFS_USET_DROPPING) {
8988 spin_unlock(&configfs_dirent_lock);
90− config_item_put(item);
9189 kfree(sl);
9290 return -ENOENT;
9391 }
92+ sl->sl_target = config_item_get(item);
9493 list_add(&sl->sl_list, &target_sd->s_links);
9594 spin_unlock(&configfs_dirent_lock);
9695 ret = configfs_create_link(sl, parent_item->ci_dentry,
include/linux/configfs.h+2−1
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ extern void config_item_init_type_name(struct config_item *item, · 73 unmodified lines
7474 const char *name,
7575 struct config_item_type *type);
7676
77−extern struct config_item * config_item_get(struct config_item *);
77+extern struct config_item *config_item_get(struct config_item *);
78+extern struct config_item *config_item_get_unless_zero(struct config_item *);
7879 extern void config_item_put(struct config_item *);
7980
8081 struct config_item_type {