lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2006]   [Sep]   [29]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH 001 of 8] knfsd: Add nfs-export support to tmpfs
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:08:39 +1000
NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:

> +static int shmem_encode_fh(struct dentry *dentry, __u32 *fh, int *len, int connectable)
> +{
> + struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
> +
> + if (*len < 2)
> + return 255;
> +
> + if (hlist_unhashed(&inode->i_hash)) {
> + /* Unfortunately insert_inode_hash is not idempotent,
> + * so as we hash inodes here rather than at creation
> + * time, we need a lock to ensure we only try
> + * to do it once
> + */
> + static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(lock);
> + spin_lock(&lock);
> + if (hlist_unhashed(&inode->i_hash))
> + insert_inode_hash(inode);
> + spin_unlock(&lock);
> + }

This looks fishy.

How do we get two callers in here at the same time for the same inode?

Why don't other filesystems have the same problem?


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2006-09-29 08:33    [W:0.665 / U:0.108 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site