From c2b6d621c4ffe9936adf7a55c8b1c769672c306f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 15:53:17 -0400 Subject: new primitive: discard_new_inode() We don't want open-by-handle picking half-set-up in-core struct inode from e.g. mkdir() having failed halfway through. In other words, we don't want such inodes returned by iget_locked() on their way to extinction. However, we can't just have them unhashed - otherwise open-by-handle immediately *after* that would've ended up creating a new in-core inode over the on-disk one that is in process of being freed right under us. Solution: new flag (I_CREATING) set by insert_inode_locked() and removed by unlock_new_inode() and a new primitive (discard_new_inode()) to be used by such halfway-through-setup failure exits instead of unlock_new_inode() / iput() combinations. That primitive unlocks new inode, but leaves I_CREATING in place. iget_locked() treats finding an I_CREATING inode as failure (-ESTALE, once we sort out the error propagation). insert_inode_locked() treats the same as instant -EBUSY. ilookup() treats those as icache miss. [Fix by Dan Carpenter folded in] Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- fs/dcache.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/dcache.c') diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index a7d9e7a4c283..11b753d29409 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -1892,7 +1892,7 @@ void d_instantiate_new(struct dentry *entry, struct inode *inode) spin_lock(&inode->i_lock); __d_instantiate(entry, inode); WARN_ON(!(inode->i_state & I_NEW)); - inode->i_state &= ~I_NEW; + inode->i_state &= ~I_NEW & ~I_CREATING; smp_mb(); wake_up_bit(&inode->i_state, __I_NEW); spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b