Commit 90d2f1da authored by Trond Myklebust's avatar Trond Myklebust Committed by J. Bruce Fields

nfsd: Fix a soft lockup race in nfsd_file_mark_find_or_create()

If nfsd_file_mark_find_or_create() keeps winning the race for the
nfsd_file_fsnotify_group->mark_mutex against nfsd_file_mark_put()
then it can soft lock up, since fsnotify_add_inode_mark() ends
up always finding an existing entry.
Signed-off-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
parent b6669305
......@@ -132,9 +132,13 @@ nfsd_file_mark_find_or_create(struct nfsd_file *nf)
struct nfsd_file_mark,
nfm_mark));
mutex_unlock(&nfsd_file_fsnotify_group->mark_mutex);
if (nfm) {
fsnotify_put_mark(mark);
if (likely(nfm))
break;
}
/* Avoid soft lockup race with nfsd_file_mark_put() */
fsnotify_destroy_mark(mark, nfsd_file_fsnotify_group);
fsnotify_put_mark(mark);
} else
mutex_unlock(&nfsd_file_fsnotify_group->mark_mutex);
......
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