From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, josef@redhat.com, jeffmerkey@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] fsfreeze: Prevent emergency thaw from looping infinitely
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:19:43 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100614231943.GH6590@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100614151815.GA32354@infradead.org>
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:18:15AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 05:19:50PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > Return -EINVAL when the filesystem is already unfrozen to avoid this
> > problem.
>
>
> This includes some additional changes in addition to the description,
> and at least one of them seems incorrect.
>
> > - error = 0;
> > - if (--bdev->bd_fsfreeze_count > 0)
> > + if (!sb)
> > goto out;
> >
> > - if (!sb)
> > + error = 0;
> > + if (--bdev->bd_fsfreeze_count > 0)
> > goto out;
>
> Here you reorder the sb check to be before the counter decrement. But
> we do support calling freeze_bdev on a device without a superblock, and
> you would leak bd_fsfreeze_count for that case and wrongly return
> -EINVAL on unthaw for these now.
Ok, will fix it.
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-14 23:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-10 7:19 [RFC, PATCH 0/5] fsfreeze: fix sb vs bdev freeze/thaw b0rkage Dave Chinner
2010-06-10 7:19 ` [PATCH 1/5] fsfreeze: Prevent emergency thaw from looping infinitely Dave Chinner
2010-06-14 15:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-14 23:19 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2010-06-10 7:19 ` [PATCH 2/5] fsfreeze: emergency thaw will deadlock on s_umount Dave Chinner
2010-06-14 15:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-14 23:21 ` Dave Chinner
2010-06-21 1:57 ` Dave Chinner
2010-06-21 7:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-10 7:19 ` [PATCH 3/5] fsfreeze: freeze_super and thaw_bdev don't play well together Dave Chinner
2010-06-14 15:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-15 0:01 ` Dave Chinner
2010-06-15 6:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-10 7:19 ` [PATCH 4/5] fsfreeze: switch to using super methods everywhere Dave Chinner
2010-06-14 15:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-10 7:19 ` [PATCH 5/5] fsfreeze: move emergency thaw code to fs/super.c Dave Chinner
2010-06-14 15:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-10 12:45 ` [RFC, PATCH 0/5] fsfreeze: fix sb vs bdev freeze/thaw b0rkage Josef Bacik
2010-06-10 12:45 ` Josef Bacik
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