On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 18:39 +0400, Stanislav Kinsbursky wrote: > Below are races, when RPC client can be created without PiepFS dentries > > CPU#0 CPU#1 > ----------------------------- ----------------------------- > rpc_new_client rpc_fill_super > rpc_setup_pipedir > mutex_lock(&sn->pipefs_sb_lock) > rpc_get_sb_net == NULL > (no per-net PipeFS superblock) > sn->pipefs_sb = sb; > notifier_call_chain(MOUNT) > (client is not in the list) > rpc_register_client > (client without pipes dentries) > > To fix this patch: > 1) makes PipeFS mount notification call with pipefs_sb_lock being held. > 2) releases pipefs_sb_lock on new SUNRPC client creation only after > registration. > > Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Hi Stanislav, This isn't going to apply to the stable kernels without the cleanup patch. Could you please reorganise this patch series so that the cleanup comes last. Thanks, Trond -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx www.netapp.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
