[Cluster-devel] GFS2: Fix locking bug in rename

Steven Whitehouse swhiteho at redhat.com
Wed Dec 9 13:59:49 UTC 2009


>From 07bb4585daae6008fd3ad0f3f081e318a4266d1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho at redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 13:55:12 +0000
Subject: GFS2: Fix locking bug in rename

The rename code was taking a resource group lock in cases where
it wasn't actually needed, this caused problems if the rename
was resulting in an inode being unlinked. The patch ensures that
we only take the rgrp lock early if it is really needed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho at redhat.com>
---
 fs/gfs2/ops_inode.c |    6 ++++--
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/ops_inode.c b/fs/gfs2/ops_inode.c
index 247436c..78f73ca 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/ops_inode.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/ops_inode.c
@@ -748,7 +748,7 @@ static int gfs2_rename(struct inode *odir, struct dentry *odentry,
 	struct gfs2_rgrpd *nrgd;
 	unsigned int num_gh;
 	int dir_rename = 0;
-	int alloc_required;
+	int alloc_required = 0;
 	unsigned int x;
 	int error;
 
@@ -867,7 +867,9 @@ static int gfs2_rename(struct inode *odir, struct dentry *odentry,
 			goto out_gunlock;
 	}
 
-	alloc_required = error = gfs2_diradd_alloc_required(ndir, &ndentry->d_name);
+	if (nip == NULL)
+		alloc_required = gfs2_diradd_alloc_required(ndir, &ndentry->d_name);
+	error = alloc_required;
 	if (error < 0)
 		goto out_gunlock;
 	error = 0;
-- 
1.6.2.5






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