[patch 04/12] fuse: fix spurious BUG

[Miklos Szeredi]

Fix a spurious BUG in an unlikely race, where at least three parallel
lookups return the same inode, but with different file type.  This has
not yet been observed in real life.

Allowing unlimited retries could delay fuse_iget() indefinitely, but
this is really for the broken userspace filesystem to worry about.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx>

---
Index: linux/fs/fuse/inode.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/fs/fuse/inode.c	2006-10-16 16:08:00.000000000 +0200
+++ linux/fs/fuse/inode.c	2006-10-16 16:08:08.000000000 +0200
@@ -172,7 +172,6 @@ struct inode *fuse_iget(struct super_blo
 	struct inode *inode;
 	struct fuse_inode *fi;
 	struct fuse_conn *fc = get_fuse_conn_super(sb);
-	int retried = 0;
 
  retry:
 	inode = iget5_locked(sb, nodeid, fuse_inode_eq, fuse_inode_set, &nodeid);
@@ -186,11 +185,9 @@ struct inode *fuse_iget(struct super_blo
 		fuse_init_inode(inode, attr);
 		unlock_new_inode(inode);
 	} else if ((inode->i_mode ^ attr->mode) & S_IFMT) {
-		BUG_ON(retried);
 		/* Inode has changed type, any I/O on the old should fail */
 		make_bad_inode(inode);
 		iput(inode);
-		retried = 1;
 		goto retry;
 	}
 

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