From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: dcache shrink list corruption?
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:23:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFxe4HKHiWbarfwtww9=WUgfAmk+Cf3G7tdBB19uMdjbEg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140430195918.GS18016@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Another thing: I don't like what's going on with freeing vs. ->d_lock there.
> Had that been a mutex, we'd definitely get a repeat of "vfs: fix subtle
> use-after-free of pipe_inode_info". The question is, can spin_unlock(p)
> dereference p after another CPU gets through spin_lock(p)? Linus?
spin_unlock() *should* be safe wrt that issue.
But I have to say, I think paravirtualized spinlocks may break that.
They do all kinds of "kick waiters" after releasing the lock.
Doesn't the RCU protection solve that, though? Nobody should be
releasing the dentry under us, afaik..
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-30 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-29 16:01 dcache shrink list corruption? Miklos Szeredi
2014-04-29 17:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-29 18:03 ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-04-29 18:16 ` Al Viro
2014-04-29 19:10 ` Al Viro
2014-04-29 21:18 ` Dave Chinner
2014-04-29 21:48 ` Al Viro
2014-04-29 23:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-29 23:20 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 2:31 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 2:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-30 4:04 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 15:49 ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-04-30 15:56 ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-04-30 16:03 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 17:33 ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-04-30 18:36 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 18:42 ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-04-30 19:02 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 19:59 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 20:23 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2014-04-30 20:38 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 20:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-30 21:12 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 22:12 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 23:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-30 23:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-30 23:43 ` Al Viro
2014-05-01 0:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-01 2:51 ` Al Viro
2014-05-01 2:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-01 3:12 ` Al Viro
2014-05-01 9:42 ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-05-01 14:34 ` Al Viro
2014-05-01 21:02 ` Al Viro
2014-05-01 21:05 ` Al Viro
2014-05-01 22:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-02 8:43 ` Szeredi Miklos
2014-05-02 21:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-30 23:38 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 9:15 ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-05-02 5:51 ` Al Viro
2014-05-02 9:00 ` Szeredi Miklos
2014-05-02 21:02 ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-05-02 21:08 ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-05-02 21:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-02 22:40 ` Al Viro
2014-05-02 23:06 ` Al Viro
2014-05-03 4:26 ` Al Viro
2014-05-03 18:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-03 18:25 ` Al Viro
2014-05-03 18:21 ` Al Viro
2014-05-04 6:29 ` Al Viro
2014-05-06 10:17 ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-05-06 14:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-06 16:52 ` Al Viro
2014-05-06 17:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-06 19:15 ` Al Viro
2014-05-02 22:32 ` Al Viro
2014-04-29 18:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-29 17:56 ` Al Viro
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