This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ext4: atomically set inode->i_flags in ext4_set_inode_flags()
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ext4-atomically-set-inode-i_flags-in-ext4_set_inode_flags.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 00a1a053ebe5febcfc2ec498bd894f035ad2aa06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 10:20:01 -0400
Subject: ext4: atomically set inode->i_flags in ext4_set_inode_flags()
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
commit 00a1a053ebe5febcfc2ec498bd894f035ad2aa06 upstream.
Use cmpxchg() to atomically set i_flags instead of clearing out the
S_IMMUTABLE, S_APPEND, etc. flags and then setting them from the
EXT4_IMMUTABLE_FL, EXT4_APPEND_FL flags, since this opens up a race
where an immutable file has the immutable flag cleared for a brief
window of time.
Reported-by: John Sullivan <jsrhbz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/inode.c | 15 +++++++++------
include/linux/bitops.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
#include <linux/printk.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/ratelimit.h>
+#include <linux/bitops.h>
#include "ext4_jbd2.h"
#include "xattr.h"
@@ -3580,18 +3581,20 @@ int ext4_get_inode_loc(struct inode *ino
void ext4_set_inode_flags(struct inode *inode)
{
unsigned int flags = EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags;
+ unsigned int new_fl = 0;
- inode->i_flags &= ~(S_SYNC|S_APPEND|S_IMMUTABLE|S_NOATIME|S_DIRSYNC);
if (flags & EXT4_SYNC_FL)
- inode->i_flags |= S_SYNC;
+ new_fl |= S_SYNC;
if (flags & EXT4_APPEND_FL)
- inode->i_flags |= S_APPEND;
+ new_fl |= S_APPEND;
if (flags & EXT4_IMMUTABLE_FL)
- inode->i_flags |= S_IMMUTABLE;
+ new_fl |= S_IMMUTABLE;
if (flags & EXT4_NOATIME_FL)
- inode->i_flags |= S_NOATIME;
+ new_fl |= S_NOATIME;
if (flags & EXT4_DIRSYNC_FL)
- inode->i_flags |= S_DIRSYNC;
+ new_fl |= S_DIRSYNC;
+ set_mask_bits(&inode->i_flags,
+ S_SYNC|S_APPEND|S_IMMUTABLE|S_NOATIME|S_DIRSYNC, new_fl);
}
/* Propagate flags from i_flags to EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags */
--- a/include/linux/bitops.h
+++ b/include/linux/bitops.h
@@ -185,6 +185,21 @@ static inline unsigned long __ffs64(u64
#ifdef __KERNEL__
+#ifndef set_mask_bits
+#define set_mask_bits(ptr, _mask, _bits) \
+({ \
+ const typeof(*ptr) mask = (_mask), bits = (_bits); \
+ typeof(*ptr) old, new; \
+ \
+ do { \
+ old = ACCESS_ONCE(*ptr); \
+ new = (old & ~mask) | bits; \
+ } while (cmpxchg(ptr, old, new) != old); \
+ \
+ new; \
+})
+#endif
+
#ifndef find_last_bit
/**
* find_last_bit - find the last set bit in a memory region
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tytso@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/ext4-atomically-set-inode-i_flags-in-ext4_set_inode_flags.patch
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