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fs: make sure data stored into inode is properly seen before unlocking new inode
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:01:06 +0000 (17:01 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:31:39 +0000 (09:31 -0700)
commit2f0ffb7ef75a9ad6140899f6d4df45e8a73a013e
tree1d276be066cc9273264f1a6e9972a5dd974c2b5e
parentf3408a2d072c29796c569b93a00eba68e8c01709
fs: make sure data stored into inode is properly seen before unlocking new inode

commit 580be0837a7a59b207c3d5c661d044d8dd0a6a30 upstream.

In theory it could happen that on one CPU we initialize a new inode but
clearing of I_NEW | I_LOCK gets reordered before some of the
initialization.  Thus on another CPU we return not fully uptodate inode
from iget_locked().

This seems to fix a corruption issue on ext3 mounted over NFS.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add some commentary]
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
fs/inode.c