Re: fctnl(F_SETSIG) no longer works in 2.6.17, does in 2.6.16.

From: Chuck Ebbert
Date: Mon Jul 31 2006 - 02:27:20 EST


In-Reply-To: <eabdhq$nca$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:08:53 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>
> fctnl(F_SETSIG) no longer works in 2.6.17, does in 2.6.16.
>
> The attached program (oplocktest.c) illustrates.

I added some debug statements to your code:

=> printf("before setlease: signal number = %d\n", fcntl(fd, F_GETSIG));
ret = fcntl(fd, F_SETLEASE, leasetype);
if (ret == -1 && errno == EACCES) {
set_capability(CAP_LEASE);
ret = fcntl(fd, F_SETLEASE, leasetype);
}
=> printf("after setlease: signal number = %d\n", fcntl(fd, F_GETSIG));

And I get:

before setlease: signal number = 34
after setlease: signal number = 0

So the fcntl(F_SETLEASE) is resetting the signal number. I don't think
it's supposed to do that.

That seems to be caused by:

| From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>
| Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:44:05 +0000 (-0500)
| Subject: VFS: Fix __posix_lock_file() copy of private lock area
| X-Git-Tag: v2.6.17-rc1
| X-Git-Url: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=47831
|
| VFS: Fix __posix_lock_file() copy of private lock area
|
| The struct file_lock->fl_u area must be copied using the fl_copy_lock()
| operation.

In this change:

| */
| void locks_copy_lock(struct file_lock *new, struct file_lock *fl)
| {
|+ locks_release_private(new);
|+
| new->fl_owner = fl->fl_owner;
| new->fl_pid = fl->fl_pid;
| new->fl_file = fl->fl_file;

Which ends up calling this:

static void lease_release_private_callback(struct file_lock *fl)
{
if (!fl->fl_file)
return;

f_delown(fl->fl_file);
=> fl->fl_file->f_owner.signum = 0;
}

I'm not sure how to fix it, though (if that's really the problem, but I
think it is.)

--
Chuck

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