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From: Xavier Roche <xavier.roche@algolia.com>
To: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] vfs: fix link vs. rename race
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 09:56:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220221085610.GA332661@xavier-xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220221082002.508392-1-mszeredi@redhat.com>

On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 09:20:02AM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> This patch introduces a global rw_semaphore that is locked for read in
> rename and for write in link.  To prevent excessive contention, do not take
> the lock in link on the first try.  If the source of the link was found to
> be unlinked, then retry with the lock held.

Tested-by: Xavier Roche <xavier.roche@algolia.com>

Revalidated patch (on a 5.16.5) using previous torture test;
- on ext4 filesystem
- on a cryptfs volume

  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-21  9:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-21  8:20 [PATCH v2] vfs: fix link vs. rename race Miklos Szeredi
2022-02-21  8:56 ` Xavier Roche [this message]
2022-09-13  2:04 ` Al Viro
2022-09-13  4:29   ` Al Viro
2022-09-13  8:02     ` Amir Goldstein
2022-09-13 10:03       ` Miklos Szeredi
2022-09-13  4:41 ` NeilBrown
2022-09-13  5:20   ` Al Viro
2022-09-13  5:40     ` Al Viro
2022-09-14  0:14       ` NeilBrown
2022-09-14  1:30         ` Al Viro
2022-09-13 23:52     ` NeilBrown
2022-09-14  0:13       ` Al Viro
2022-09-16  6:13         ` [PATCH RFC] VFS: lock source directory for link to avoid " NeilBrown
2022-09-16  6:28           ` Miklos Szeredi
2022-09-16  6:45             ` NeilBrown
2022-09-16  6:49             ` Al Viro
2022-09-16 14:32           ` Amir Goldstein
2022-09-19  8:28             ` Christian Brauner
2022-09-19 22:56               ` NeilBrown
2022-09-23  3:02           ` [VFS] 3fb4ec6faa: ltp.linkat02.fail kernel test robot

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