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[5/9] VFS/namei: enhance follow_link to support RCU-walk.

Message ID 20150305052121.23906.90482.stgit@notabene.brown (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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NeilBrown March 5, 2015, 5:21 a.m. UTC
If LOOKUP_RCU is set, follow_link will not take/drop reference counts.

Replace cond_resched() with _cond_resched() as the latter
is a no-op if rcu_read_lock() is held while the former will
give a warning in that case.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
---
 fs/namei.c |   19 +++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)



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diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 5814d1b2daab..4ddbc1ef5726 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -883,7 +883,8 @@  follow_link(struct path *link, struct nameidata *nd, void **p)
 	if (unlikely(current->total_link_count >= 40))
 		goto out_put_nd_path;
 
-	cond_resched();
+	/* If rcu_read_locked(), this will not resched, and will not warn */
+	_cond_resched();
 	current->total_link_count++;
 
 	if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) {
@@ -913,11 +914,17 @@  follow_link(struct path *link, struct nameidata *nd, void **p)
 			return PTR_ERR(s);
 		}
 		if (*s == '/') {
-			if (!nd->root.mnt)
-				set_root(nd);
-			path_put(&nd->path);
-			nd->path = nd->root;
-			path_get(&nd->root);
+			if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) {
+				if (!nd->root.mnt)
+					set_root_rcu(nd);
+				nd->path = nd->root;
+			} else {
+				if (!nd->root.mnt)
+					set_root(nd);
+				path_put(&nd->path);
+				nd->path = nd->root;
+				path_get(&nd->root);
+			}
 			nd->flags |= LOOKUP_JUMPED;
 		}
 		nd->inode = nd->path.dentry->d_inode;