Revision 8aef18845266f5c05904c610088f2d1ed58f6be3 authored by Al Viro on 16 June 2011, 14:10:06 UTC, committed by Al Viro on 16 June 2011, 15:28:16 UTC
[Kudos to dhowells for tracking that crap down]
If two processes attempt to cause automounting on the same mountpoint at the
same time, the vfsmount holding the mountpoint will be left with one too few
references on it, causing a BUG when the kernel tries to clean up.
The problem is that lock_mount() drops the caller's reference to the
mountpoint's vfsmount in the case where it finds something already mounted on
the mountpoint as it transits to the mounted filesystem and replaces path->mnt
with the new mountpoint vfsmount.
During a pathwalk, however, we don't take a reference on the vfsmount if it is
the same as the one in the nameidata struct, but do_add_mount() doesn't know
this.
The fix is to make sure we have a ref on the vfsmount of the mountpoint before
calling do_add_mount(). However, if lock_mount() doesn't transit, we're then
left with an extra ref on the mountpoint vfsmount which needs releasing.
We can handle that in follow_managed() by not making assumptions about what
we can and what we cannot get from lookup_mnt() as the current code does.
The callers of follow_managed() expect that reference to path->mnt will be
grabbed iff path->mnt has been changed. follow_managed() and follow_automount()
keep track of whether such reference has been grabbed and assume that it'll
happen in those and only those cases that'll have us return with changed
path->mnt. That assumption is almost correct - it breaks in case of
racing automounts and in even harder to hit race between following a mountpoint
and a couple of mount --move. The thing is, we don't need to make that
assumption at all - after the end of loop in follow_manage() we can check
if path->mnt has ended up unchanged and do mntput() if needed.
The BUG can be reproduced with the following test program:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int pid, ws;
struct stat buf;
pid = fork();
stat(argv[1], &buf);
if (pid > 0) wait(&ws);
return 0;
}
and the following procedure:
(1) Mount an NFS volume that on the server has something else mounted on a
subdirectory. For instance, I can mount / from my server:
mount warthog:/ /mnt -t nfs4 -r
On the server /data has another filesystem mounted on it, so NFS will see
a change in FSID as it walks down the path, and will mark /mnt/data as
being a mountpoint. This will cause the automount code to be triggered.
!!! Do not look inside the mounted fs at this point !!!
(2) Run the above program on a file within the submount to generate two
simultaneous automount requests:
/tmp/forkstat /mnt/data/testfile
(3) Unmount the automounted submount:
umount /mnt/data
(4) Unmount the original mount:
umount /mnt
At this point the kernel should throw a BUG with something like the
following:
BUG: Dentry ffff880032e3c5c0{i=2,n=} still in use (1) [unmount of nfs4 0:12]
Note that the bug appears on the root dentry of the original mount, not the
mountpoint and not the submount because sys_umount() hasn't got to its final
mntput_no_expire() yet, but this isn't so obvious from the call trace:
[<ffffffff8117cd82>] shrink_dcache_for_umount+0x69/0x82
[<ffffffff8116160e>] generic_shutdown_super+0x37/0x15b
[<ffffffffa00fae56>] ? nfs_super_return_all_delegations+0x2e/0x1b1 [nfs]
[<ffffffff811617f3>] kill_anon_super+0x1d/0x7e
[<ffffffffa00d0be1>] nfs4_kill_super+0x60/0xb6 [nfs]
[<ffffffff81161c17>] deactivate_locked_super+0x34/0x83
[<ffffffff811629ff>] deactivate_super+0x6f/0x7b
[<ffffffff81186261>] mntput_no_expire+0x18d/0x199
[<ffffffff811862a8>] mntput+0x3b/0x44
[<ffffffff81186d87>] release_mounts+0xa2/0xbf
[<ffffffff811876af>] sys_umount+0x47a/0x4ba
[<ffffffff8109e1ca>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x1fd/0x22f
[<ffffffff816ea86b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
as do_umount() is inlined. However, you can see release_mounts() in there.
Note also that it may be necessary to have multiple CPU cores to be able to
trigger this bug.
Tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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bt8xxgpio.txt
===============================================================
== BT8XXGPIO driver ==
== ==
== A driver for a selfmade cheap BT8xx based PCI GPIO-card ==
== ==
== For advanced documentation, see ==
== http://www.bu3sch.de/btgpio.php ==
===============================================================
A generic digital 24-port PCI GPIO card can be built out of an ordinary
Brooktree bt848, bt849, bt878 or bt879 based analog TV tuner card. The
Brooktree chip is used in old analog Hauppauge WinTV PCI cards. You can easily
find them used for low prices on the net.
The bt8xx chip does have 24 digital GPIO ports.
These ports are accessible via 24 pins on the SMD chip package.
==============================================
== How to physically access the GPIO pins ==
==============================================
The are several ways to access these pins. One might unsolder the whole chip
and put it on a custom PCI board, or one might only unsolder each individual
GPIO pin and solder that to some tiny wire. As the chip package really is tiny
there are some advanced soldering skills needed in any case.
The physical pinouts are drawn in the following ASCII art.
The GPIO pins are marked with G00-G23
G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
--| ^ ^ |--
--| pin 86 pin 67 |--
--| |--
--| pin 61 > |-- G18
--| |-- G19
--| |-- G20
--| |-- G21
--| |-- G22
--| pin 56 > |-- G23
--| |--
--| Brooktree 878/879 |--
--| |--
--| |--
--| |--
--| |--
--| |--
--| |--
--| |--
--| |--
--| |--
--| |--
--| |--
--| |--
--| |--
--| O |--
--| |--
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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^
This is pin 1
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