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sysfs: store sysfs inode nrs in s_ino to avoid readdir oopses
authorEric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:02:45 +0000 (14:02 +0900)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:08:46 +0000 (16:08 -0700)
commit0a264ac5d0fde4cdfa62171aa5d1d70e78beeaa1
tree282d57855f66119f930eb629ab483bffcc5b6c21
parent49b26da3931b73535fdee8ef425e968fa83a8811
sysfs: store sysfs inode nrs in s_ino to avoid readdir oopses

Backport of
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc1/2.6.22-rc1-mm1/broken-out/gregkh-driver-sysfs-allocate-inode-number-using-ida.patch

For regular files in sysfs, sysfs_readdir wants to traverse
sysfs_dirent->s_dentry->d_inode->i_ino to get to the inode number.
But, the dentry can be reclaimed under memory pressure, and there is
no synchronization with readdir.  This patch follows Tejun's scheme of
allocating and storing an inode number in the new s_ino member of a
sysfs_dirent, when dirents are created, and retrieving it from there
for readdir, so that the pointer chain doesn't have to be traversed.

Tejun's upstream patch uses a new-ish "ida" allocator which brings
along some extra complexity; this -stable patch has a brain-dead
incrementing counter which does not guarantee uniqueness, but because
sysfs doesn't hash inodes as iunique expects, uniqueness wasn't
guaranteed today anyway.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
fs/sysfs/dir.c
fs/sysfs/inode.c
fs/sysfs/mount.c
fs/sysfs/sysfs.h