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GFS2: Fix potential race in glock code
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We need to be careful of the ordering between clearing the
GLF_LOCK bit and scheduling the workqueue.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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Steven Whitehouse committed Dec 3, 2009
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10 changes: 8 additions & 2 deletions fs/gfs2/glock.c
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Expand Up @@ -672,12 +672,17 @@ __acquires(&gl->gl_spin)
return;

out_sched:
clear_bit(GLF_LOCK, &gl->gl_flags);
smp_mb__after_clear_bit();
gfs2_glock_hold(gl);
if (queue_delayed_work(glock_workqueue, &gl->gl_work, 0) == 0)
gfs2_glock_put_nolock(gl);
return;

out_unlock:
clear_bit(GLF_LOCK, &gl->gl_flags);
goto out;
smp_mb__after_clear_bit();
return;
}

static void delete_work_func(struct work_struct *work)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1375,10 +1380,11 @@ static int gfs2_shrink_glock_memory(int nr, gfp_t gfp_mask)
handle_callback(gl, LM_ST_UNLOCKED, 0);
nr--;
}
clear_bit(GLF_LOCK, &gl->gl_flags);
smp_mb__after_clear_bit();
if (queue_delayed_work(glock_workqueue, &gl->gl_work, 0) == 0)
gfs2_glock_put_nolock(gl);
spin_unlock(&gl->gl_spin);
clear_bit(GLF_LOCK, &gl->gl_flags);
spin_lock(&lru_lock);
continue;
}
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