Re: [PATCH] locks: ensure that fl_owner is always initialized properly in flock and lease codepaths

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 01:50:13PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Currently, the fl_owner isn't set for flock locks. Some filesystems use
> byte-range locks to simulate flock locks and there is a common idiom in
> those that does:
> 
>     fl->fl_owner = (fl_owner_t)filp;
>     fl->fl_start = 0;
>     fl->fl_end = OFFSET_MAX;
> 
> Since flock locks are generally "owned" by the open file description,
> move this into the common flock lock setup code. The fl_start and fl_end
> fields are already set appropriately, so remove the unneeded setting of
> that in flock ops in those filesystems as well.
> 
> Finally, the lease code also sets the fl_owner as if they were owned by
> the process and not the open file description. This is incorrect as
> leases have the same ownership semantics as flock locks. Set them the
> same way. The lease code doesn't actually use the fl_owner value for
> anything, so this is more for consistency's sake than a bugfix.
> 
> Reported-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/file.c | 17 ++++++-----------
>  fs/9p/vfs_file.c                           |  3 ---
>  fs/afs/flock.c                             |  4 ----
>  fs/ceph/locks.c                            | 10 ++--------
>  fs/fuse/file.c                             |  1 -
>  fs/locks.c                                 |  4 +++-
>  fs/nfs/file.c                              |  4 ----
>  7 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

Staging portion:

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>