Commit c83686ac authored by Andrew Morton's avatar Andrew Morton Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] fix race between writeback and unlink

Fixes a race between unlink and writeback: on the sys_sync() and
pdflush paths the caller does not have a reference against the inode.

So run __iget prior to dropping inode_lock.

Oleg Drokin reported this and seems to believe that it fixes the
crashes he was observing.  But I was never able to reproduce them..
parent 91cb02b7
......@@ -245,17 +245,19 @@ static void sync_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb, int sync_mode,
if ((sync_mode == WB_SYNC_LAST) && (head->prev == head))
really_sync = 1;
BUG_ON(inode->i_state & I_FREEING);
__iget(inode);
__writeback_single_inode(inode, really_sync, nr_to_write);
if (sync_mode == WB_SYNC_HOLD) {
mapping->dirtied_when = jiffies;
list_del(&inode->i_list);
list_add(&inode->i_list, &inode->i_sb->s_dirty);
}
if (current_is_pdflush())
writeback_release(bdi);
spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
iput(inode);
spin_lock(&inode_lock);
if (nr_to_write && *nr_to_write <= 0)
break;
}
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