On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 10:36:15AM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> Ok, Thank you. I've expected that this fix isn't sane,
>
> Maybe we could minimize changes for now. For example: keep these
> stale dentries in memory but silently unhash them in ->d_compare().
> Memory processure and reclaimer will kill them later.
->d_compare() is called by the code walking the hash chains. What's worse,
in the most common case all we have is rcu_read_lock(). Modifying the chain
in rcu reader is no-go. Turning __d_lookup_rcu() into a writer on the
off-chance that we'll walk onto a visibly stale sysctl dentry - even more so.
If you want to deal with that, do it right, please. Have sysctl inodes
on a list of some kind anchored in struct ctl_table_header; insert them
there in proc_sys_make_inode(), remove - in proc_evict_inode() (or
have it pass the inode to sysctl_head_put() and do the removal there).
Use sysctl_lock for serialization.
In start_unregistering(), just before the erase_header() call, check
if the list is non-empty and if it is -
grab sysctl_lock
last = NULL
walk the list
igrab(inode we are looking at)
if succeeded
drop sysctl_lock
iput(last)
last = that inode
d_prune_aliases(last)
retake sysctl_lock
// inode is still not evicted, so it's still on the list
drop sysctl_lock
iput(last)
list would pass through struct proc_inode, and I would probably use
hlist rather than the normal one; might be more convenient to initialize
that way. Getting from containing struct proc_inode to inode - &ei->vfs_inode.
It's not that much work; if you have time - go for it, or remind me after
-rc1...
