Re: Q: NFSD readdir in linux-2.6.28

[hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp]

Matthew Wilcox:
> > I _think_ it's sufficient to make the affected callers of
> > lookup_one_len() lock the parent's i_mutex for themselves before calling
> > it. I'll take a closer look...
> 
> Should we also add this?
	:::
> @@ -1244,6 +1244,7 @@ struct dentry *lookup_one_len(const char *name, struct dentry *base, int len)
>  	int err;
>  	struct qstr this;
>  
> +	BUG_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&base->d_inode->i_mutex));
>  	err = __lookup_one_len(name, &this, base, len);

That was how I found this problem actually. :-)
I implemented very similar debug code in aufs which is compiled when
CONFIG_AUFS_DEBUG is enabled.

(in aufs header files)
#ifdef CONFIG_AUFS_DEBUG
#define AuDebugOn(a)		BUG_ON(a)
	:::
#endif

/* to debug easier, do not make them inlined functions */
#define MtxMustLock(mtx)	AuDebugOn(!mutex_is_locked(mtx))
#define IMustLock(i)		MtxMustLock(&(i)->i_mutex)

(in ->lookup of aufs)
static struct dentry *aufs_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
				  struct nameidata *nd)
{
	:::
	IMustLock(dir);


J. R. Okajima