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FromIan Kent <>
Subject[PATCH 4/7] autofs4 - don't release directory mutex if called in oz_mode
DateTue, 17 Jun 2008 20:23:55 +0800
Since we now delay hashing of dentrys until the ->mkdir() call,
droping and re-taking the directory mutex within the ->lookup()
function when we are being called by user space is not needed.
This can lead to a race when other processes are attempting to
access the same directory during mount point directory creation.

In this case we need to hang onto the mutex to ensure we don't
get user processes trying to create a mount request for a newly
created dentry after the mount point entry has already been
created. This ensures that when we need to check a dentry passed
to autofs4_wait(), if it is hashed, it is always the mount point
dentry and not a new dentry created by another lookup during
directory creation.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>

---
 fs/autofs4/root.c |   11 +++++------
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/autofs4/root.c b/fs/autofs4/root.c
index 7fa303d..236eb9b 100644
--- a/fs/autofs4/root.c
+++ b/fs/autofs4/root.c
@@ -683,12 +683,11 @@ static struct dentry *autofs4_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, s
 		spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
 		dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_AUTOFS_PENDING;
 		spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
-	}
-
-	if (dentry->d_op && dentry->d_op->d_revalidate) {
-		mutex_unlock(&dir->i_mutex);
-		(dentry->d_op->d_revalidate)(dentry, nd);
-		mutex_lock(&dir->i_mutex);
+		if (dentry->d_op && dentry->d_op->d_revalidate) {
+			mutex_unlock(&dir->i_mutex);
+			(dentry->d_op->d_revalidate)(dentry, nd);
+			mutex_lock(&dir->i_mutex);
+		}
 	}
 
 	/*

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