Re: [PATCH 1/2] locks: introduce i_blockleases to close lease races

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 04:54:33PM -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 15:12 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: 
> > On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 03:10:04PM -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 00:08 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 05:34:46PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 04:24:00PM -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > > > > > On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 20:10 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > > > > > > From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Since break_lease is called before i_writecount is incremented, there's
> > > > > > > a window between the two where a setlease call would have no way to know
> > > > > > > that an open is about to happen.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > So unless the break_lease() call is moved from may_open() to after 
> > > > > > nameidata_to_filp(), I don't see any other options.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Actually, offhand I can't see why that wouldn't be OK.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Though I think we still end up needing something like i_blockleases to
> > > > > handle unlink, link, rename, chown, and chmod.
> > > > 
> > > > Well, I guess there's a bizarre alternative that wouldn't require a new
> > > > inode field:
> > > 
> > > In lieu of adding a new inode field, another possible option, a bit
> > > kludgy, would be extending i_flock with an additional fl_flag
> > > FL_BLOCKLEASE.
> > > 
> > > #define IS_BLOCKLEASE(fl)    (fl->fl_flags & FL_BLOCKLEASE)
> > 
> > Alas, that would mean adding and removing one of these file locks around
> > every single link, unlink, rename,....
> > 
> > --b.
> 
> You're adding a call to break_lease() for each of them.  Currently
> __break_lease() is only called if a lease exists. Assuming there aren't
> any existing leases, couldn't break_lease() call something like
> block_lease()?  The free would be after the link, unlink, ...,
> completed/failed.
> 
> (You wouldn't actually need to alloc/free the 'struct file_lock' each
> time, just set the pointer and reset to NULL.)

Well, the pointer has to be set to something.  I suppose we could put a
struct file_lock on the stack.

--b.