On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 07:58:34AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > We might not have read in the extent list at this point, so make sure we > take the ilock exclusively if we have to do so. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> > > diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_attr.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_attr.c > index b861270..5343034 100644 > --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_attr.c > +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_attr.c > @@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ xfs_attr_get( > { > int error; > struct xfs_name xname; > + uint lock_mode; > > XFS_STATS_INC(xs_attr_get); > > @@ -174,9 +175,9 @@ xfs_attr_get( > if (error) > return error; > > - xfs_ilock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED); > + lock_mode = xfs_ilock_map_shared(ip); > error = xfs_attr_get_int(ip, &xname, value, valuelenp, flags); > - xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED); > + xfs_iunlock_map_shared(ip, lock_mode); > return(error); > } I think the locking here should be moved inside xfs_attr_get_int() so that it uses the same locking pattern as xfs_attr_set() and xfs_attr_remove(). Also, xfs_attr_list() needs this treatment (the attr version of readdir) as well (and it has the locking inside xfs_attr_list_int(), too ;). It looks like xfs_readlink needs fixing, too. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs