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authorjiangyiwen <jiangyiwen@huawei.com>2014-04-03 14:47:13 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-04-03 16:20:57 -0700
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ocfs2: avoid system inode ref confusion by adding mutex lock
The following case may lead to the same system inode ref in confusion. A thread B thread ocfs2_get_system_file_inode ->get_local_system_inode ->_ocfs2_get_system_file_inode because of *arr == NULL, ocfs2_get_system_file_inode ->get_local_system_inode ->_ocfs2_get_system_file_inode gets first ref thru _ocfs2_get_system_file_inode, gets second ref thru igrab and set *arr = inode at the moment, B thread also gets two refs, so lead to one more inode ref. So add mutex lock to avoid multi thread set two inode ref once at the same time. Signed-off-by: jiangyiwen <jiangyiwen@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@huawei.com> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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