On Jul 06 2022, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Jul 2022 at 16:37, Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am seeing something that to me looks like a race between FUSE's
>> readdir() and releasedir() handlers. On kernel 5.18, the FUSE daemon
>> seems to (ocasionally) receive a releasedir() request while a readdir()
>> request with the same `struct fuse_file_info *fi->fh` is still active
>> (i.e., the FUSE daemon hasn't sent a reply to the kernel for this yet).
>>
>> Could this be a bug in the kernel? Or is there something else that could
>> explain this?
>
> Is there a log where this can be observed?
Not so far, I haven't been able to reproduce it with debug logging
enabled.
The way that I'm inferring what's happening is from a crash due to
writing to freed memory. My fi->fh points to a malloc'ed area that is
free'd in releasedir(), and written to in readdir().
Best,
-Nikolaus
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