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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org,
	zohar@us.ibm.com, warthog9@kernel.org, jmorris@namei.org,
	kyle@mcmartin.ca, hpa@zytor.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] IMA: use rbtree instead of radix tree for inode information cache
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:17:47 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101019231747.GC12506@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101019225839.12396.92630.stgit@paris.rdu.redhat.com>

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 06:58:39PM -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> @@ -36,12 +63,11 @@ struct ima_iint_cache *ima_iint_find_get(struct inode *inode)
>  	struct ima_iint_cache *iint;
>  
>  	rcu_read_lock();
> -	iint = radix_tree_lookup(&ima_iint_store, (unsigned long)inode);
> -	if (!iint)
> -		goto out;
> -	kref_get(&iint->refcount);
> -out:
> +	iint = __ima_iint_find(inode);
> +	if (iint)
> +		kref_get(&iint->refcount);
>  	rcu_read_unlock();
> +

This is wrong - the rbtree is protected only by the ima_iint_lock(),
not RCU. Hence you can't do lockless lookups on an rbtree in this
manner as they will race with inserts and deletes.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-19 23:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-19 22:58 [PATCH 1/6] IMA: move read/write counters into struct inode Eric Paris
2010-10-19 22:58 ` [PATCH 2/6] IMA: drop the inode opencount since it isn't needed for operation Eric Paris
2010-10-19 22:58 ` [PATCH 3/6] IMA: use unsigned int instead of long for counters Eric Paris
2010-10-19 22:58 ` [PATCH 4/6] IMA: only allocate iint when needed Eric Paris
2010-10-20  3:53   ` Al Viro
2010-10-19 22:58 ` [PATCH 5/6] IMA: use rbtree instead of radix tree for inode information cache Eric Paris
2010-10-19 23:17   ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2010-10-20 11:31     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-20 22:05       ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-20 22:22         ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-20 22:47           ` Trond Myklebust
2010-10-21  0:58             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-21  2:17               ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-19 22:58 ` [PATCH 6/6] IMA: use i_writecount rather than a private counter Eric Paris
2010-10-20  0:25 ` [PATCH 1/6] IMA: move read/write counters into struct inode Linus Torvalds
2010-10-23  3:01   ` Eric Paris
2010-10-24  6:52     ` Mimi Zohar

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