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Commit d58431ea authored by NeilBrown's avatar NeilBrown Committed by J. Bruce Fields
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sunrpc: don't mark uninitialised items as VALID.

A recent commit added a call to cache_fresh_locked()
when an expired item was found.
The call sets the CACHE_VALID flag, so it is important
that the item actually is valid.
There are two ways it could be valid:
1/ If ->update has been called to fill in relevant content
2/ if CACHE_NEGATIVE is set, to say that content doesn't exist.

An expired item that is waiting for an update will be neither.
Setting CACHE_VALID will mean that a subsequent call to cache_put()
will be likely to dereference uninitialised pointers.

So we must make sure the item is valid, and we already have code to do
that in try_to_negate_entry().  This takes the hash lock and so cannot
be used directly, so take out the two lines that we need and use them.

Now cache_fresh_locked() is certain to be called only on
a valid item.

Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.35
Fixes: 4ecd55ea

 ("sunrpc: fix cache_head leak due to queued request")
Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
parent 79a3aaa7
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