broken cifsFileInfo handling in cifs_reopen_file codepath
Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.file-systems.cifs |
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I've found a pretty nasty set of bugs relating to how cifsFileInfo structs are handled when reopening a file. This patch added support for reopening a file after a reconnect using posix opens: commit 7fc8f4e95bf9564045985bb206af8e28a5e4e28f Author: Steve French <[email protected]> Date: Mon Feb 23 20:43:11 2009 +0000 [CIFS] reopen file via newer posix open protocol operation if available If the network connection crashes, and we have to reopen files, preferentially use the newer cifs posix open protocol operation if the server supports it. Signed-off-by: Steve French <[email protected]> ...the problem here is that cifs_posix_open allocates a new cifsFileInfo struct on a successful open. That new struct is apparently ignored however. The private_data pointer for the VFS file struct is never updated to point to the new cifsFileInfo. It seems like this will leak cifsFileInfo structs on reconnect at the very least. It may have other more harmful effects since you'll have dangling entries sitting on the "flist" for an inode. I don't think it's sufficient to "put" the existing cifsFileInfo struct in favor of the new one since you may have other codepaths that have pointers and active references to the cifsFileInfo struct. Steve, any chance you could fix this? I find this code a bit hard to follow and am not clear on how you intended it to work. Thanks, -- Jeff Layton <[email protected]>