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authorDipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>2006-04-18 22:21:46 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-04-19 09:13:51 -0700
commitca99c1da080345e227cfb083c330a184d42e27f3 (patch)
treee417b4c456ae31dc1dde8027b6be44a1a9f19395 /drivers/char
parentfb30d64568fd8f6a21afef987f11852a109723da (diff)
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[PATCH] Fix file lookup without ref
There are places in the kernel where we look up files in fd tables and access the file structure without holding refereces to the file. So, we need special care to avoid the race between looking up files in the fd table and tearing down of the file in another CPU. Otherwise, one might see a NULL f_dentry or such torn down version of the file. This patch fixes those special places where such a race may happen. Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/tty_io.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
index 841f0bd..f07637a 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -2723,7 +2723,11 @@ static void __do_SAK(void *arg)
}
task_lock(p);
if (p->files) {
- rcu_read_lock();
+ /*
+ * We don't take a ref to the file, so we must
+ * hold ->file_lock instead.
+ */
+ spin_lock(&p->files->file_lock);
fdt = files_fdtable(p->files);
for (i=0; i < fdt->max_fds; i++) {
filp = fcheck_files(p->files, i);
@@ -2738,7 +2742,7 @@ static void __do_SAK(void *arg)
break;
}
}
- rcu_read_unlock();
+ spin_unlock(&p->files->file_lock);
}
task_unlock(p);
} while_each_thread(g, p);
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