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Revision c3724b129b5a1a1789a2dc5348685a236ae02479 authored by Jeff Mahoney on 12 April 2007, 06:28:46 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 12 April 2007, 22:31:42 UTC 
[PATCH] autofs4: fix race in unhashed dentry code
 
Commit f50b6f8691cae2e0064c499dd3ef3f31142987f0 introduced a race in
autofs4 between autofs_lookup_unhashed() and autofs_dentry_release().

autofs_dentry_release() ends up clearing the ->dentry and ->inode members
of autofs_info before removing it from the rehash list.  The list is
protected by the rehash lock in both functions, but since
autofs_dentry_release() starts tearing the autofs_info struct down before
removing it from the list, autofs_lookup_unhashed() can get a autofs_info
with a NULL dentry.

This patch moves the clearing of ->dentry and ->inode after the removal
from the rehash list.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tip revision: c3724b129b5a1a1789a2dc5348685a236ae02479 authored by Jeff Mahoney on 12 April 2007, 06:28:46 UTC
[PATCH] autofs4: fix race in unhashed dentry code
Tip revision: c3724b1
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