From: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:36:10 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: ocfs2: Re-order iput in ocfs2_drop_dentry_lock
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.24-rc3~176^2~4
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9f70968af3e6e21612e06e153aa71c62dee5a09b;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fkernel-adaptation-pc.git

ocfs2: Re-order iput in ocfs2_drop_dentry_lock

Do this to avoid a theoretical (I haven't seen this in practice) race where
the downconvert thread might drop the dentry lock, allowing a remote unlink
to proceed before dropping the inode locks. This could bounce access to the
orphan dir between nodes.

There doesn't seem to be a need to do the same in ocfs2_dentry_iput() as
that's never called for the last ref drop from the downconvert thread.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
---

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/dcache.c b/fs/ocfs2/dcache.c
index 3094ddb..1957a5e 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/dcache.c
@@ -318,9 +318,9 @@ out_attach:
 static void ocfs2_drop_dentry_lock(struct ocfs2_super *osb,
 				   struct ocfs2_dentry_lock *dl)
 {
+	iput(dl->dl_inode);
 	ocfs2_simple_drop_lockres(osb, &dl->dl_lockres);
 	ocfs2_lock_res_free(&dl->dl_lockres);
-	iput(dl->dl_inode);
 	kfree(dl);
 }