On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 18:39 +0400, Stanislav Kinsbursky wrote: > Below are races, when RPC client can be created without PiepFS dentries > > CPU#0 CPU#1 > ----------------------------- ----------------------------- > rpc_new_client rpc_fill_super > rpc_setup_pipedir > mutex_lock(&sn->pipefs_sb_lock) > rpc_get_sb_net == NULL > (no per-net PipeFS superblock) > sn->pipefs_sb = sb; > notifier_call_chain(MOUNT) > (client is not in the list) > rpc_register_client > (client without pipes dentries) > > To fix this patch: > 1) makes PipeFS mount notification call with pipefs_sb_lock being held. > 2) releases pipefs_sb_lock on new SUNRPC client creation only after > registration. > > Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected]
Hi Stanislav, This isn't going to apply to the stable kernels without the cleanup patch. Could you please reorganise this patch series so that the cleanup comes last. Thanks, Trond -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp [email protected] www.netapp.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
