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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Viacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com>
Cc: "Ernesto A. Fernández" <ernesto.mnd.fernandez@gmail.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] hfsplus: update timestamps on truncate()
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 03:42:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181013024256.GI32577@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1539381441.3203.6.camel@slavad-ubuntu-14.04>

On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 02:57:21PM -0700, Viacheslav Dubeyko wrote:

> Looks good.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Vyacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com>

Looking at the vicinity of that code has brought something that looks
fishy: suppose we have the file opened and close() races with unlink()
and open()

1) unlink() finds the victim and locks it

2) in hfsplus_file_release():
        if (atomic_dec_and_test(&HFSPLUS_I(inode)->opencnt)) {
got to 0
                inode_lock(inode);
block waiting for unlink

3) open() finds the sucker in dcache and hits hfsplus_file_open(), where
we do
        atomic_inc(&HFSPLUS_I(inode)->opencnt);
and now opencnt is 1.

4) on the unlink side:
        if (inode->i_ino == cnid &&
            atomic_read(&HFSPLUS_I(inode)->opencnt)) {
                str.name = name;
                str.len = sprintf(name, "temp%lu", inode->i_ino);
                res = hfsplus_rename_cat(inode->i_ino,
                                         dir, &dentry->d_name,
                                         sbi->hidden_dir, &str);
                if (!res) {
                        inode->i_flags |= S_DEAD;
                        drop_nlink(inode);
                }
                goto out;
        }
nlink is zero now, the sucker got renamed and marked S_DEAD

5) ->release() finally got through inode_lock() and
                hfsplus_file_truncate(inode);
                if (inode->i_flags & S_DEAD) {
                        hfsplus_delete_cat(inode->i_ino,
                                           HFSPLUS_SB(sb)->hidden_dir, NULL);
                        hfsplus_delete_inode(inode);
                }
                inode_unlock(inode);
... and now we have killed everything we used to have associated with that
inode on disk.  While it's still open.  What's to stop CNID to be reused,
etc. and what's to preserve sanity in that situation?

What am I missing there?

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-13 10:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-12  4:22 [PATCH 1/2] hfsplus: update timestamps on truncate() Ernesto A. Fernández
2018-10-12  4:23 ` [PATCH 2/2] hfs: update timestamp " Ernesto A. Fernández
2018-10-12 21:57   ` Viacheslav Dubeyko
2018-10-12 21:57 ` [PATCH 1/2] hfsplus: update timestamps " Viacheslav Dubeyko
2018-10-13  2:42   ` Al Viro [this message]
2018-10-15 21:02     ` Viacheslav Dubeyko
2018-10-15 21:24       ` Al Viro
2018-10-17  2:01         ` Viacheslav Dubeyko
2018-10-18  2:09         ` Viacheslav Dubeyko
2018-10-16 23:15     ` Ernesto A. Fernández

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