Use f_lock to protect f_flags

Traditionally, changes to struct file->f_flags have been done under BKL
protection, or with no protection at all.  This patch causes all f_flags
changes after file open/creation time to be done under protection of
f_lock.  This allows the removal of some BKL usage and fixes a number of
longstanding (if microscopic) races.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/fcntl.c b/fs/fcntl.c
index bd215cc..04df857 100644
--- a/fs/fcntl.c
+++ b/fs/fcntl.c
@@ -189,7 +189,9 @@ static int setfl(int fd, struct file * filp, unsigned long arg)
 		}
 	}
 
+	spin_lock(&filp->f_lock);
 	filp->f_flags = (arg & SETFL_MASK) | (filp->f_flags & ~SETFL_MASK);
+	spin_unlock(&filp->f_lock);
  out:
 	unlock_kernel();
 	return error;