Re: [PATCH 09/31] IGET: Stop BFS from using iget() and read_inode()[try #3]

From: Roel Kluin
Date: Wed Oct 10 2007 - 20:54:50 EST


It is very well possible that I misunderstand the locking order here,
but FWIW:

David Howells wrote:
> diff --git a/fs/bfs/inode.c b/fs/bfs/inode.c
> index f346eb1..76798c9 100644
> --- a/fs/bfs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/bfs/inode.c
> @@ -32,25 +32,29 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>
> void dump_imap(const char *prefix, struct super_block * s);
>
> -static void bfs_read_inode(struct inode * inode)
> +struct inode *bfs_iget(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino)
> {
> - unsigned long ino = inode->i_ino;
> struct bfs_inode * di;
> struct buffer_head * bh;
> + struct inode *inode;
> int block, off;
>
> + inode = iget_locked(sb, ino);

after this

> + if (IS_ERR(inode))
> + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> + if (!(inode->i_state & I_NEW))
> + return inode;

Don't you have to unlock_new_inode(inode) before returning?

> +
> if (ino < BFS_ROOT_INO || ino > BFS_SB(inode->i_sb)->si_lasti) {
> printf("Bad inode number %s:%08lx\n", inode->i_sb->s_id, ino);
> - make_bad_inode(inode);
> - return;
> + goto error;
> }
>
> block = (ino - BFS_ROOT_INO)/BFS_INODES_PER_BLOCK + 1;
> bh = sb_bread(inode->i_sb, block);
> if (!bh) {
> printf("Unable to read inode %s:%08lx\n", inode->i_sb->s_id, ino);
> - make_bad_inode(inode);
> - return;
> + goto error;
> }
>
> off = (ino - BFS_ROOT_INO) % BFS_INODES_PER_BLOCK;
> @@ -85,6 +89,12 @@ static void bfs_read_inode(struct inode * inode)
> BFS_I(inode)->i_dsk_ino = le16_to_cpu(di->i_ino); /* can be 0 so we store a copy */
>
> brelse(bh);
> + unlock_new_inode(inode);
> + return inode;
> +
> +error:

and also here?

> + iget_failed(inode);
> + return ERR_PTR(-EIO);
> }
-
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