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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>,
	Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] NFS: Fix a memory leak in nfs_readdir
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:35:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CF67955.2050808@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=C8UtWwctEgBY2584d8fDV3OHpf+mGNnQO8ZJt@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/01/2010 11:17 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So this is a TOTALLY UNTESTED trivial patch that just adds another
> callback. Does this work? I dunno. But I get the feeling that instead
> of having NFS work around the odd semantics that don't actually match
> what NFS wants, introducing a new callback with much simpler semantics
> would be simpler for everybody, and avoid the need for subtle code.

Surely somebody can have just looked up the page and
gotten a reference count, right before your ->freepage
call is invoked?

CPU A				CPU B

look up page
grab refcount
				->freepage

use contents of page

Am I overlooking something obvious?

-- 
All rights reversed

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-01 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-30 17:42 [PATCH] NFS: Fix a readdirplus bug Trond Myklebust
2010-11-30 22:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-30 22:13   ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-01  3:47   ` [PATCH 0/3] Fix more NFS readdir regressions Trond Myklebust
2010-12-01  3:47   ` [PATCH 1/3] NFS: Ensure we use the correct cookie in nfs_readdir_xdr_filler Trond Myklebust
2010-12-01 15:04     ` Nick Bowler
2010-12-01 15:36       ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Fix more NFS readdir regressions Trond Myklebust
2010-12-01 15:36       ` [PATCH v2 1/3] NFS: Ensure we use the correct cookie in nfs_readdir_xdr_filler Trond Myklebust
2010-12-01 15:36       ` [PATCH v2 2/3] NFS: lock the readdir page while it is in use Trond Myklebust
2010-12-01 15:36       ` [PATCH v2 3/3] NFS: Fix a memory leak in nfs_readdir Trond Myklebust
2010-12-01 16:17         ` Linus Torvalds
2010-12-01 16:35           ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2010-12-01 16:45             ` Benny Halevy
2010-12-01 16:47             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-12-01 17:02               ` Rik van Riel
2010-12-01 17:58           ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-01 18:29           ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-12-01 18:54           ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-01 19:23             ` Hugh Dickins
2010-12-01 19:52               ` Linus Torvalds
2010-12-01 20:05               ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-01 20:39                 ` Andrew Morton
2010-12-01 21:29                   ` Neil Brown
2010-12-01 22:43                     ` Andrew Morton
2010-12-01 23:01                       ` Neil Brown
2010-12-01 19:47             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-12-01 20:10               ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-01 20:10                 ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-01 20:18                 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-12-01 20:31                 ` Hugh Dickins
2010-12-01 20:33                 ` Andrew Morton
2010-12-01 21:02                   ` Hugh Dickins
2010-12-01 21:15                     ` Hugh Dickins
2010-12-01 21:38                       ` Andrew Morton
2010-12-01 21:51                         ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-01 22:13                           ` Andrew Morton
2010-12-01 22:24                             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-12-01 22:38                               ` Andrew Morton
2010-12-01 22:47                                 ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-01 23:21                                   ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-01 23:21                                     ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-01 23:46                                     ` Andrew Morton
2010-12-01 23:56                                       ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-01 23:31                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-12-01 23:36                                   ` Andrew Morton
2010-12-02  1:05                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-12-02  1:22                                       ` Andrew Morton
2010-12-02  1:42                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2010-12-02  2:05                                           ` Andrew Morton
2010-12-02  3:08                                           ` [PATCH v3 0/3] Fix more NFS readdir regressions Trond Myklebust
2010-12-02  3:08                                           ` [PATCH v3 1/3] NFS: Ensure we use the correct cookie in nfs_readdir_xdr_filler Trond Myklebust
2010-12-02  3:08                                           ` [PATCH v3 2/3] Call the filesystem back whenever a page is removed from the page cache Trond Myklebust
2010-12-02  3:34                                             ` Hugh Dickins
2010-12-02  3:53                                               ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-02  3:58                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-12-06 16:59                                                   ` [PATCH v4 0/3] Fix more NFS readdir regressions Trond Myklebust
2010-12-06 16:59                                                   ` [PATCH v4 1/3] NFS: Ensure we use the correct cookie in nfs_readdir_xdr_filler Trond Myklebust
2010-12-06 16:59                                                   ` [PATCH v4 2/3] Call the filesystem back whenever a page is removed from the page cache Trond Myklebust
2010-12-07  7:08                                                     ` Nick Piggin
2010-12-06 16:59                                                   ` [PATCH v4 3/3] NFS: Fix a memory leak in nfs_readdir Trond Myklebust
2010-12-02  3:08                                           ` [PATCH v3 " Trond Myklebust
2010-12-03  9:12                                           ` [PATCH v2 " Nick Piggin
2010-12-01 23:43                                   ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-01 22:43                               ` Hugh Dickins
2010-12-01  3:47   ` [PATCH 2/3] NFS: lock the readdir page while it is in use Trond Myklebust
2010-12-01  4:10     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-12-01  4:29       ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-01  5:06         ` Linus Torvalds
2010-12-01 14:49           ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-01 13:14         ` Rik van Riel
2010-12-01 14:55           ` Trond Myklebust
2010-12-01  3:47   ` [PATCH 3/3] NFS: Fix a memory leak in nfs_readdir Trond Myklebust

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