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    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      sysfs: fix race condition around sd->s_dentry, take#2 · dd14cbc9
      Tejun Heo authored
      Allowing attribute and symlink dentries to be reclaimed means
      sd->s_dentry can change dynamically.  However, updates to the field
      are unsynchronized leading to race conditions.  This patch adds
      sysfs_lock and use it to synchronize updates to sd->s_dentry.
      
      Due to the locking around ->d_iput, the check in sysfs_drop_dentry()
      is complex.  sysfs_lock only protect sd->s_dentry pointer itself.  The
      validity of the dentry is protected by dcache_lock, so whether dentry
      is alive or not can only be tested while holding both locks.
      
      This is minimal backport of sysfs_drop_dentry() rewrite in devel
      branch.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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