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Commit adb6fa7f authored by Stanislav Kinsbursky's avatar Stanislav Kinsbursky Committed by Trond Myklebust
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SUNRPC: fix races on PipeFS UMOUNT notifications



CPU#0                                   CPU#1
-----------------------------           -----------------------------
rpc_kill_sb
sn->pipefs_sb = NULL                    rpc_release_client
(UMOUNT_EVENT)                          rpc_free_auth
rpc_pipefs_event
rpc_get_client_for_event
!atomic_inc_not_zero(cl_count)
<skip the client>
                                        atomic_inc(cl_count)
                                        rpc_free_client
                                        rpc_clnt_remove_pipedir
                                        <skip client dir removing>

To fix this, this patch does the following:

1) Calls RPC_PIPEFS_UMOUNT notification with sn->pipefs_sb_lock being held.
2) Removes SUNRPC client from the list AFTER pipes destroying.
3) Doesn't hold RPC client on notification: if client in the list, then it
can't be destroyed while sn->pipefs_sb_lock in hold by notification caller.

Signed-off-by: default avatarStanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
parent 38481605
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