From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Layton Subject: [PATCH v6 02/19] fs: have flush_delayed_fput flush the workqueue job Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 13:33:35 -0400 Message-ID: <1445362432-18869-3-git-send-email-jeff.layton@primarydata.com> References: <1445362432-18869-1-git-send-email-jeff.layton@primarydata.com> Cc: linux-nfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Al Viro To: bfields-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1445362432-18869-1-git-send-email-jeff.layton-7I+n7zu2hftEKMMhf/gKZA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org I think there's a potential race in flush_delayed_fput. A kthread does an fput() and that file gets added to the list and the delayed work is scheduled. More than 1 jiffy passes, and the workqueue thread picks up the work and starts running it. Then the kthread calls flush_delayed_work. It sees that the list is empty and returns immediately, even though the __fput for its file may not have run yet. Close this by making flush_delayed_fput use flush_delayed_work instead, which should immediately schedule the work to run if it's not already, and block until the workqueue job completes. Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton --- fs/file_table.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c index ad17e05ebf95..52cc6803c07a 100644 --- a/fs/file_table.c +++ b/fs/file_table.c @@ -244,6 +244,8 @@ static void ____fput(struct callback_head *work) __fput(container_of(work, struct file, f_u.fu_rcuhead)); } +static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(delayed_fput_work, delayed_fput); + /* * If kernel thread really needs to have the final fput() it has done * to complete, call this. The only user right now is the boot - we @@ -256,11 +258,9 @@ static void ____fput(struct callback_head *work) */ void flush_delayed_fput(void) { - delayed_fput(NULL); + flush_delayed_work(&delayed_fput_work); } -static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(delayed_fput_work, delayed_fput); - void fput(struct file *file) { if (atomic_long_dec_and_test(&file->f_count)) { -- 2.4.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html