From 0068c623f6fd0630176e224bf929dff4852b5580 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 12:05:43 -0400 Subject: Fix sget() race with failing mount commit 7a4dec53897ecd3367efb1e12fe8a4edc47dc0e9 upstream. If sget() finds a matching superblock being set up, it'll grab an active reference to it and grab s_umount. That's fine - we'll wait for completion of foofs_get_sb() that way. However, if said foofs_get_sb() fails we'll end up holding the halfway-created superblock. deactivate_locked_super() called by foofs_get_sb() will just unlock the sucker since we are holding another active reference to it. What we need is a way to tell if superblock has been successfully set up. Unfortunately, neither ->s_root nor the check for MS_ACTIVE quite fit. Cheap and easy way, suitable for backport: new flag set by the (only) caller of ->get_sb(). If that flag isn't present by the time sget() grabbed s_umount on preexisting superblock it has found, it's seeing a stillborn and should just bury it with deactivate_locked_super() (and repeat the search). Longer term we want to set that flag in ->get_sb() instances (and check for it to distinguish between "sget() found us a live sb" and "sget() has allocated an sb, we need to set it up" in there, instead of checking ->s_root as we do now). Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker --- include/linux/fs.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index e93529db488..8aa6bd9ddc0 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -209,6 +209,7 @@ struct inodes_stat_t { #define MS_KERNMOUNT (1<<22) /* this is a kern_mount call */ #define MS_I_VERSION (1<<23) /* Update inode I_version field */ #define MS_STRICTATIME (1<<24) /* Always perform atime updates */ +#define MS_BORN (1<<29) #define MS_ACTIVE (1<<30) #define MS_NOUSER (1<<31) -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258