On 27/7/23 12:30, Imran Khan wrote:
Hello Ian,
Sorry for late reply. I was about to reply this week.
On 27/7/2023 10:38 am, Ian Kent wrote:
On 20/7/23 10:03, Ian Kent wrote:
On Wed, 2023-07-19 at 12:23 +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
[...]
I do see a problem with recent changes.
I'll send this off to Greg after I've done some testing (primarily just
compile and function).
Here's a patch which describes what I found.
Comments are, of course, welcome, ;)
Anders I was hoping you would check if/what lockdep trace
you get with this patch.
Imran, I was hoping you would comment on my change as it
relates to the kernfs_iattr_rwsem changes.
Ian
kernfs: fix missing kernfs_iattr_rwsem locking
From: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx>
When the kernfs_iattr_rwsem was introduced a case was missed.
The update of the kernfs directory node child count was also protected
by the kernfs_rwsem and needs to be included in the change so that the
child count (and so the inode n_link attribute) does not change while
holding the rwsem for read.
kernfs direcytory node's child count changes in kernfs_(un)link_sibling and
these are getting invoked while adding (kernfs_add_one),
removing(__kernfs_remove) or moving (kernfs_rename_ns)a node. Each of these
operations proceed under kernfs_rwsem and I see each invocation of
kernfs_link/unlink_sibling during the above mentioned operations is happening
under kernfs_rwsem.
So the child count should still be protected by kernfs_rwsem and we should not
need to acquire kernfs_iattr_rwsem in kernfs_link/unlink_sibling.
Yes, that's exactly what I intended (assuming you mean write lock in
those cases)
when I did it so now I wonder what I saw that lead to my patch, I'll
need to look
again ...
Kindly let me know your thoughts. I would still like to see new lockdep traces
with this change.
Indeed, I hope Anders can find time to get the trace.
Ian
Thanks,
Imran
Fixes: 9caf696142 (kernfs: Introduce separate rwsem to protect inode
attributes)
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Imran Khan <imran.f.khan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/kernfs/dir.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/kernfs/dir.c b/fs/kernfs/dir.c
index 45b6919903e6..6e84bb69602e 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/kernfs/dir.c
@@ -383,9 +383,11 @@ static int kernfs_link_sibling(struct kernfs_node
*kn)
rb_insert_color(&kn->rb, &kn->parent->dir.children);
/* successfully added, account subdir number */
+ down_write(&kernfs_root(kn)->kernfs_iattr_rwsem);
if (kernfs_type(kn) == KERNFS_DIR)
kn->parent->dir.subdirs++;
kernfs_inc_rev(kn->parent);
+ up_write(&kernfs_root(kn)->kernfs_iattr_rwsem);
return 0;
}
@@ -408,9 +410,11 @@ static bool kernfs_unlink_sibling(struct
kernfs_node *kn)
if (RB_EMPTY_NODE(&kn->rb))
return false;
+ down_write(&kernfs_root(kn)->kernfs_iattr_rwsem);
if (kernfs_type(kn) == KERNFS_DIR)
kn->parent->dir.subdirs--;
kernfs_inc_rev(kn->parent);
+ up_write(&kernfs_root(kn)->kernfs_iattr_rwsem);
rb_erase(&kn->rb, &kn->parent->dir.children);
RB_CLEAR_NODE(&kn->rb);
