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authorJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>2007-09-12 18:56:12 -0400
committerJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>2007-10-09 18:31:57 -0400
commit0272e1fd9f4fa8a43357c168e081744f99e67195 (patch)
treec56c6469fd2d220e317cf7ab7215e538dca5bad3 /Documentation/highuid.txt
parent354ecbb9dd89c21708b319da8c4ffd3dd6e6811d (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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