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author | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> | 2007-09-12 18:56:12 -0400 |
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committer | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> | 2007-10-09 18:31:57 -0400 |
commit | 0272e1fd9f4fa8a43357c168e081744f99e67195 (patch) | |
tree | c56c6469fd2d220e317cf7ab7215e538dca5bad3 /Documentation/highuid.txt | |
parent | 354ecbb9dd89c21708b319da8c4ffd3dd6e6811d (diff) |
knfsd: let nfsd manage timing out its own leases
Currently there's a race that can cause an oops in generic_setlease.
(In detail: nfsd, when it removes a lease, does so by calling
vfs_setlease() with F_UNLCK and a pointer to the fl_flock field, which
in turn points to nfsd's existing lease; but the first thing the
setlease code does is call time_out_leases(). If the lease happens to
already be beyond the lease break time, that will free the lease and (in
nfsd's release_private callback) set fl_flock to NULL, leading to a NULL
deference soon after in vfs_setlease().)
There are probably other things to fix here too, but it seems inherently
racy to allow either locks.c or nfsd to time out this lease. Instead
just set the fl_break_time to 0 (preventing locks.c from ever timing out
this lock) and leave it up to nfsd's laundromat thread to deal with it.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
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