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fat: ->i_pos race fix
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i_pos is 64bits value, hence it's not atomic to update.

Important place is fat_write_inode() only, other places without lock
are just for printk().

This adds lock for "BITS_PER_LONG == 32" kernel.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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OGAWAHirofumi authored and torvalds committed Nov 6, 2008
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21 changes: 19 additions & 2 deletions fs/fat/inode.c
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Expand Up @@ -542,6 +542,20 @@ static int fat_statfs(struct dentry *dentry, struct kstatfs *buf)
return 0;
}

static inline loff_t fat_i_pos_read(struct msdos_sb_info *sbi,
struct inode *inode)
{
loff_t i_pos;
#if BITS_PER_LONG == 32
spin_lock(&sbi->inode_hash_lock);
#endif
i_pos = MSDOS_I(inode)->i_pos;
#if BITS_PER_LONG == 32
spin_unlock(&sbi->inode_hash_lock);
#endif
return i_pos;
}

static int fat_write_inode(struct inode *inode, int wait)
{
struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
Expand All @@ -551,9 +565,12 @@ static int fat_write_inode(struct inode *inode, int wait)
loff_t i_pos;
int err;

if (inode->i_ino == MSDOS_ROOT_INO)
return 0;

retry:
i_pos = MSDOS_I(inode)->i_pos;
if (inode->i_ino == MSDOS_ROOT_INO || !i_pos)
i_pos = fat_i_pos_read(sbi, inode);
if (!i_pos)
return 0;

bh = sb_bread(sb, i_pos >> sbi->dir_per_block_bits);
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