On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 12:02:22PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > On Tue 11-06-24 06:15:40, Mateusz Guzik wrote: > > new_inode used to have the following: > > spin_lock(&inode_lock); > > inodes_stat.nr_inodes++; > > list_add(&inode->i_list, &inode_in_use); > > list_add(&inode->i_sb_list, &sb->s_inodes); > > inode->i_ino = ++last_ino; > > inode->i_state = 0; > > spin_unlock(&inode_lock); > > > > over time things disappeared, got moved around or got replaced (global > > inode lock with a per-inode lock), eventually this got reduced to: > > spin_lock(&inode->i_lock); > > inode->i_state = 0; > > spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); > > > > But the lock acquire here does not synchronize against anyone. > > > > Additionally iget5_locked performs i_state = 0 assignment without any > > locks to begin with and the two combined look confusing at best. > > > > It looks like the current state is a leftover which was not cleaned up. > > > > Ideally it would be an invariant that i_state == 0 to begin with, but > > achieving that would require dealing with all filesystem alloc handlers > > one by one. > > > > In the meantime drop the misleading locking and move i_state zeroing to > > alloc_inode so that others don't need to deal with it by hand. > > > > Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@xxxxxxxxx> > > Good point. But the initialization would seem more natural in > inode_init_always(), wouldn't it? And that will also address your "FIXME" > comment. > My point is that by the time the inode is destroyed some of the fields like i_state should be set to a well-known value, this one preferably plain 0. I did not patch inode_init_always because it is exported and xfs uses it in 2 spots, only one of which zeroing the thing immediately after. Another one is a little more involved, it probably would not be a problem as the value is set altered later anyway, but I don't want to mess with semantics of the func if it can be easily avoided.
