[PATCH] Fix minor quota race

From: Jan Kara
Date: Thu Jul 01 2004 - 15:09:49 EST


Hello Andrew!

I'm sending one more quota fix - it fixes a possible race between
quotaoff and prune_icache. The race could lead to some forgotten
pointers to quotas in inodes leading later to BUG when invalidating
quota structures. The patch is against 2.6.7. Please apply.

Honza

diff -rpuX /home/jack/.kerndiffexclude linux-2.6.7-1-flagslock/fs/dquot.c linux-2.6.7-2-quotaoff/fs/dquot.c
--- linux-2.6.7-1-flagslock/fs/dquot.c 2004-07-01 20:49:27.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.7-2-quotaoff/fs/dquot.c 2004-07-01 20:54:04.000000000 +0200
@@ -114,9 +114,10 @@
* operations on dquots don't hold dq_lock as they copy data under dq_data_lock
* spinlock to internal buffers before writing.
*
- * Lock ordering (including related VFS locks) is following:
- * i_sem > dqonoff_sem > journal_lock > dqptr_sem > dquot->dq_lock > dqio_sem
- * i_sem on quota files is special (it's below dqio_sem)
+ * Lock ordering (including some related VFS locks) is the following:
+ * i_sem > dqonoff_sem > iprune_sem > journal_lock > dqptr_sem >
+ * > dquot->dq_lock > dqio_sem
+ * i_sem on quota files is special (it's below dqio_sem)
*/

spinlock_t dq_list_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
@@ -726,14 +727,20 @@ static void put_dquot_list(struct list_h
/* Function in inode.c - remove pointers to dquots in icache */
extern void remove_dquot_ref(struct super_block *, int, struct list_head *);

+extern struct semaphore iprune_sem;
+
/* Gather all references from inodes and drop them */
static void drop_dquot_ref(struct super_block *sb, int type)
{
LIST_HEAD(tofree_head);

+ /* We need to be guarded against prune_icache to reach all the
+ * inodes - otherwise some can be on the local list of prune_icache */
+ down(&iprune_sem);
down_write(&sb_dqopt(sb)->dqptr_sem);
remove_dquot_ref(sb, type, &tofree_head);
up_write(&sb_dqopt(sb)->dqptr_sem);
+ up(&iprune_sem);
put_dquot_list(&tofree_head);
}

diff -rpuX /home/jack/.kerndiffexclude linux-2.6.7-1-flagslock/fs/inode.c linux-2.6.7-2-quotaoff/fs/inode.c
--- linux-2.6.7-1-flagslock/fs/inode.c 2004-06-30 23:17:12.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.7-2-quotaoff/fs/inode.c 2004-07-01 00:27:08.000000000 +0200
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ spinlock_t inode_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCK
* from its final dispose_list, the struct super_block they refer to
* (for inode->i_sb->s_op) may already have been freed and reused.
*/
-static DECLARE_MUTEX(iprune_sem);
+DECLARE_MUTEX(iprune_sem);

/*
* Statistics gathering..