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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	jack@suse.cz, hch@infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com, mszeredi@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] vfs: keep list of mounts for each superblock
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 23:17:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110803221707.GM2203@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1312368521-7911-3-git-send-email-miklos@szeredi.hu>

On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 12:48:39PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> @@ -696,6 +696,11 @@ vfs_kern_mount(struct file_system_type *type, int flags, const char *name, void
>  	mnt->mnt_sb = root->d_sb;
>  	mnt->mnt_mountpoint = mnt->mnt_root;
>  	mnt->mnt_parent = mnt;
> +
> +	br_write_lock(vfsmount_lock);
> +	list_add_tail(&mnt->mnt_instance, &mnt->mnt_sb->s_mounts);
> +	br_write_unlock(vfsmount_lock);

Racy.

> @@ -745,6 +750,10 @@ static struct vfsmount *clone_mnt(struct vfsmount *old, struct dentry *root,
>  			if (!list_empty(&old->mnt_expire))
>  				list_add(&mnt->mnt_expire, &old->mnt_expire);
>  		}
> +
> +		br_write_lock(vfsmount_lock);
> +		list_add_tail(&mnt->mnt_instance, &mnt->mnt_sb->s_mounts);
> +		br_write_unlock(vfsmount_lock);

Ditto.  If you expect to be able to find *all* vfsmounts over given sb,
this locking is simply wrong.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-03 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-03 10:48 [PATCH v5 0/4] read-only remount race fix Miklos Szeredi
2011-08-03 10:48 ` [PATCH 1/4] vfs: ignore error on forced remount Miklos Szeredi
2011-08-03 10:49   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-03 16:15     ` Miklos Szeredi
2011-08-03 10:48 ` [PATCH 2/4] vfs: keep list of mounts for each superblock Miklos Szeredi
2011-08-03 21:53   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-03 22:17   ` Al Viro [this message]
2011-08-04  9:10     ` Miklos Szeredi
2011-08-04  9:46       ` Jan Kara
2011-08-04  9:58         ` Miklos Szeredi
2011-08-03 10:48 ` [PATCH 3/4] vfs: protect remounting superblock read-only Miklos Szeredi
2011-08-03 10:48 ` [PATCH 4/4] vfs: fs_may_remount_ro: turn unnecessary check into a WARN_ON Miklos Szeredi
     [not found] <1314191791-29218-1-git-send-email-miklos@szeredi.hu>
2011-08-24 13:22 ` [PATCH 2/4] vfs: keep list of mounts for each superblock Miklos Szeredi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-10-26 14:16 [PATCH 0/4] read-only remount fixes Miklos Szeredi
2010-10-26 14:16 ` [PATCH 2/4] vfs: keep list of mounts for each superblock Miklos Szeredi

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