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Commit 4768e9b1 authored by Louis Rilling's avatar Louis Rilling Committed by Mark Fasheh
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[PATCH] configfs: Fix symlink() to a removing item



The rule for configfs symlinks is that symlinks always point to valid
config_items, and prevent the target from being removed. However,
configfs_symlink() only checks that it can grab a reference on the target item,
without ensuring that it remains alive until the symlink is correctly attached.

This patch makes configfs_symlink() fail whenever the target is being removed,
using the CONFIGFS_USET_DROPPING flag set by configfs_detach_prep() and
protected by configfs_dirent_lock.

This patch introduces a similar (weird?) behavior as with mkdir failures making
rmdir fail: if symlink() races with rmdir() of the parent directory (or its
youngest user-created ancestor if parent is a default group) or rmdir() of the
target directory, and then fails in configfs_create(), this can make the racing
rmdir() fail despite the concerned directory having no user-created entry (resp.
no symlink pointing to it or one of its default groups) in the end.
This behavior is fixed in later patches.

Signed-off-by: default avatarLouis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJoel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
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