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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>,
	"<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Mailing List"
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"<linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Dcache oops
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 23:23:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160603222355.GW14480@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFyYkbXqoJ3PqfrnxWDEXJM_BH6Q_OdKf+UVJYEUF4gdQA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 03:00:02PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Is perhaps the "delayed_call" logic broken, and the symlink is free'd too early?
> 
> That whole set_delayed_call/do_delayed_call thing came in 4.5. Maybe
> something broke that logic, and we've executed the delayed freeing
> before we should have.
> 
> Normally it's done at terminate_walk() time. But I note that in
> walk_component(), we do put_link(nd) which does a do_delayed_call(),
> but does *not* do a clear_delayed_call(), so now I think a subsequent
> terminate_walk() might drop it *again*.

Nope - put_link() also decrements nd->depth.  No double calls there...

> I'm probably missing something, but I have to say that the old
> explicit "put_link()" callback logic was more obvious than the new
> delayed calls are.

It's not that.  It's explicit put_link() in do_last(), followed by
ESTALEOPEN and subsequent misbegotten "retry the last step on ESTALEOPEN"
looking at now-freed nd->last.name.  IOW, the bug predates delayed_call
stuff.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-03 22:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-02 22:46 NFS/d_splice_alias breakage Oleg Drokin
2016-06-02 23:59 ` [PATCH] Allow d_splice_alias to accept hashed dentries green
2016-06-03  0:25   ` Oleg Drokin
2016-06-03  0:44 ` NFS/d_splice_alias breakage Trond Myklebust
2016-06-03  0:54   ` Oleg Drokin
2016-06-03  3:26     ` Al Viro
2016-06-03  3:38       ` Al Viro
2016-06-03  3:28   ` Al Viro
2016-06-03  3:37 ` Al Viro
2016-06-03  3:43   ` Oleg Drokin
2016-06-03  4:26     ` Al Viro
2016-06-03  4:42       ` Al Viro
2016-06-03  4:53         ` Al Viro
2016-06-03  4:58       ` Oleg Drokin
2016-06-03  5:56         ` Al Viro
2016-06-06 23:36           ` Oleg Drokin
2016-06-10  1:33             ` Oleg Drokin
2016-06-10 16:49               ` Oleg Drokin
2016-06-20 13:25           ` Oleg Drokin
2016-06-20 14:08             ` Al Viro
2016-06-20 14:54               ` Trond Myklebust
2016-06-20 15:28                 ` Al Viro
2016-06-20 15:43               ` Anna Schumaker
2016-06-20 15:45                 ` Oleg Drokin
2016-06-20 15:47                 ` Trond Myklebust
2016-06-03 16:38       ` Dcache oops Oleg Drokin
2016-06-03 18:22         ` Al Viro
2016-06-03 18:35           ` Oleg Drokin
2016-06-03 20:07             ` Al Viro
2016-06-03 21:17               ` Oleg Drokin
2016-06-03 21:46                 ` Al Viro
2016-06-03 22:17                   ` Al Viro
2016-06-03 21:18               ` Linus Torvalds
2016-06-03 21:26                 ` Al Viro
2016-06-03 22:00                   ` Linus Torvalds
2016-06-03 22:23                     ` Al Viro [this message]
2016-06-03 22:29                       ` Al Viro
2016-06-03 22:36                       ` Linus Torvalds
2016-06-03 22:42                         ` Oleg Drokin
2016-06-03 22:43                         ` Al Viro
2016-06-03 22:37                       ` Al Viro
2016-06-03 22:49                         ` Oleg Drokin
2016-06-03 23:58                         ` Oleg Drokin
2016-06-04  0:56                           ` Al Viro
2016-06-04 12:25                             ` Jeff Layton
2016-06-04 16:12                             ` Oleg Drokin

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