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gfs2: Prevent inode creation race

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When a request to evict an inode comes in over the network, we are
trying to grab an inode reference via the iopen glock's gl_object
pointer.  There is a very small probability that by the time such a
request comes in, inode creation hasn't completed and the I_NEW flag is
still set.  To deal with that, wait for the inode and then check if
inode creation was successful.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
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Andreas Gruenbacher 2024-11-19 12:15:26 +01:00
parent c5b7a2400e
commit ffd1cf0443
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@ -982,6 +982,13 @@ static void gfs2_try_evict(struct gfs2_glock *gl)
if (ip && !igrab(&ip->i_inode))
ip = NULL;
spin_unlock(&gl->gl_lockref.lock);
if (ip) {
wait_on_inode(&ip->i_inode);
if (is_bad_inode(&ip->i_inode)) {
iput(&ip->i_inode);
ip = NULL;
}
}
if (ip) {
set_bit(GIF_DEFER_DELETE, &ip->i_flags);
d_prune_aliases(&ip->i_inode);