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From: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	<linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] fs: synchronize_rcu when unregister_filesystem success not failure
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:41:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fs-unreg-rcu@mdm.bga.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ext4-masq@mdm.bga.com>

While checking unregister_filesystem for saftey vs extra calls for
"ext4: register ext2 and ext3 alias after ext4" I realized that
the synchronize_rcu() was called on the error path but not on
the success path.

Should we call it in both?
Cc: stable (2.6.38)
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>

Index: work.git/fs/filesystems.c
===================================================================
--- work.git.orig/fs/filesystems.c	2011-04-14 10:06:44.360068116 -0500
+++ work.git/fs/filesystems.c	2011-04-14 10:08:41.880061794 -0500
@@ -110,14 +110,13 @@ int unregister_filesystem(struct file_sy
 			*tmp = fs->next;
 			fs->next = NULL;
 			write_unlock(&file_systems_lock);
+			synchronize_rcu();
 			return 0;
 		}
 		tmp = &(*tmp)->next;
 	}
 	write_unlock(&file_systems_lock);
 
-	synchronize_rcu();
-
 	return -EINVAL;
 }

       reply	other threads:[~2011-04-14 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]   ` <4DA5ADA6.5060301@teksavvy.com>
     [not found]     ` <5A35771F-49B6-491E-B012-DBE68907E382@mit.edu>
     [not found]       ` <ext4-masq@mdm.bga.com>
2011-04-14 15:41         ` Milton Miller [this message]
2011-04-14 15:52           ` [PATCH] fs: synchronize_rcu when unregister_filesystem success not failure Linus Torvalds
2011-04-14 16:59             ` Marco Stornelli
2011-04-15  0:49             ` Mark Lord

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