Re: [PATCH 2/2] locks: set fl_owner for leases back to current->files

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On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 04:14:36PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> This fixes a regression due to commit 130d1f956ab3. I had mistakenly
> thought that the fl_owner wasn't used in the lease code, but I missed
> the place in __break_lease that does use it.
> 
> The i_have_this_lease check in generic_add_lease uses it. While I'm not
> sure that check is terribly helpful [1], reset it back to using
> current->files in order to ensure that there's no behavior change here.
> 
> [1]: leases are owned by the file description. It's possible that this
>      is a threaded program, and the lease breaker and the task that
>      would handle the signal are different, even if they have the same
>      file table. So, there is the potential for false positives with
>      this check.

ACK to restoring the old behavior, but meanwhile I'm pretty confused by
the old behavior.

> Fixes:

Did you mean to have a 130d1f956ab3 there?

--b.

> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/locks.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/locks.c b/fs/locks.c
> index da57c9b7e844..717fbc404e6b 100644
> --- a/fs/locks.c
> +++ b/fs/locks.c
> @@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ static int lease_init(struct file *filp, long type, struct file_lock *fl)
>  	if (assign_type(fl, type) != 0)
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
> -	fl->fl_owner = (fl_owner_t)filp;
> +	fl->fl_owner = (fl_owner_t)current->files;
>  	fl->fl_pid = current->tgid;
>  
>  	fl->fl_file = filp;
> -- 
> 1.9.3
> 
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