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[PATCH] VFS: Fix an error in unused dentry counting
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With Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>

Fix an error in unused dentry counting in shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree()
in which the count is modified without the dcache_lock held.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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dhowells authored and Linus Torvalds committed Oct 28, 2006
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10 changes: 8 additions & 2 deletions fs/dcache.c
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Expand Up @@ -557,6 +557,7 @@ void shrink_dcache_sb(struct super_block * sb)
static void shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree(struct dentry *dentry)
{
struct dentry *parent;
unsigned detached = 0;

BUG_ON(!IS_ROOT(dentry));

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -621,7 +622,7 @@ static void shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree(struct dentry *dentry)
atomic_dec(&parent->d_count);

list_del(&dentry->d_u.d_child);
dentry_stat.nr_dentry--; /* For d_free, below */
detached++;

inode = dentry->d_inode;
if (inode) {
Expand All @@ -639,7 +640,7 @@ static void shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree(struct dentry *dentry)
* otherwise we ascend to the parent and move to the
* next sibling if there is one */
if (!parent)
return;
goto out;

dentry = parent;

Expand All @@ -648,6 +649,11 @@ static void shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree(struct dentry *dentry)
dentry = list_entry(dentry->d_subdirs.next,
struct dentry, d_u.d_child);
}
out:
/* several dentries were freed, need to correct nr_dentry */
spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
dentry_stat.nr_dentry -= detached;
spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
}

/*
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