UBIFS: allow for racing between GC and TNC

The TNC mutex is unlocked prematurely when reading leaf nodes
with non-hashed keys.  This is unsafe because the node may be
moved by garbage collection and the eraseblock unmapped, although
that has never actually happened during stress testing.

This patch fixes the flaw by detecting the race and retrying with
the TNC mutex locked.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
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Adrian Hunter
2008-08-22 14:23:35 +03:00
zatwierdzone przez Artem Bityutskiy
rodzic 761e29f3bb
commit 601c0bc467
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@@ -344,6 +344,12 @@ int ubifs_garbage_collect_leb(struct ubifs_info *c, struct ubifs_lprops *lp)
if (err)
goto out;
/* Allow for races with TNC */
c->gced_lnum = lnum;
smp_wmb();
c->gc_seq += 1;
smp_wmb();
if (c->gc_lnum == -1) {
c->gc_lnum = lnum;
err = LEB_RETAINED;