* [PATCH] btrfs: fix unlocked access of delalloc_inodes
@ 2011-06-09 10:02 David Sterba
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From: David Sterba @ 2011-06-09 10:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-btrfs; +Cc: chris.mason, David Sterba
list_splice_init will make delalloc_inodes empty, but without a spinlock
around, this may produce corrupted list head, accessed in many placess,
The race window is very tight and nobody seems to have hit it so far.
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
---
fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 3 +--
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
index 98b6a71..11dda73 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
@@ -2911,9 +2911,8 @@ static int btrfs_destroy_delalloc_inodes(struct btrfs_root *root)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&splice);
- list_splice_init(&root->fs_info->delalloc_inodes, &splice);
-
spin_lock(&root->fs_info->delalloc_lock);
+ list_splice_init(&root->fs_info->delalloc_inodes, &splice);
while (!list_empty(&splice)) {
btrfs_inode = list_entry(splice.next, struct btrfs_inode,
--
1.7.5.2.353.g5df3e
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