Просмотр исходного кода

posix_acl: de-union a_refcount and a_rcu

Currently the two are unioned together, but I don't think that's safe.

It looks like get_cached_acl could race with the last put in
posix_acl_release. get_cached_acl calls atomic_inc_not_zero on
a_refcount, but that field could have already been clobbered by
call_rcu, and may no longer be zero. Fix this by de-unioning the two
fields.

Fixes: b8a7a3a66747 (posix_acl: Inode acl caching fixes)
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Jeff Layton 9 лет назад
Родитель
Сommit
6d4e56ce97
1 измененных файлов с 2 добавлено и 4 удалено
  1. 2 4
      include/linux/posix_acl.h

+ 2 - 4
include/linux/posix_acl.h

@@ -43,10 +43,8 @@ struct posix_acl_entry {
 };
 
 struct posix_acl {
-	union {
-		atomic_t		a_refcount;
-		struct rcu_head		a_rcu;
-	};
+	atomic_t		a_refcount;
+	struct rcu_head		a_rcu;
 	unsigned int		a_count;
 	struct posix_acl_entry	a_entries[0];
 };