GFS2: Fix locking bug in rename
authorSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Wed, 9 Dec 2009 13:55:12 +0000 (13:55 +0000)
committerSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Fri, 8 Jan 2010 13:42:42 +0000 (13:42 +0000)
The rename code was taking a resource group lock in cases where
it wasn't actually needed, this caused problems if the rename
was resulting in an inode being unlinked. The patch ensures that
we only take the rgrp lock early if it is really needed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
fs/gfs2/ops_inode.c

index 247436c10deb853a35f4daf7db90cf18de96099a..78f73ca1ef3e8ac9ce5af97b43eccec7e8f7be68 100644 (file)
@@ -748,7 +748,7 @@ static int gfs2_rename(struct inode *odir, struct dentry *odentry,
        struct gfs2_rgrpd *nrgd;
        unsigned int num_gh;
        int dir_rename = 0;
-       int alloc_required;
+       int alloc_required = 0;
        unsigned int x;
        int error;
 
@@ -867,7 +867,9 @@ static int gfs2_rename(struct inode *odir, struct dentry *odentry,
                        goto out_gunlock;
        }
 
-       alloc_required = error = gfs2_diradd_alloc_required(ndir, &ndentry->d_name);
+       if (nip == NULL)
+               alloc_required = gfs2_diradd_alloc_required(ndir, &ndentry->d_name);
+       error = alloc_required;
        if (error < 0)
                goto out_gunlock;
        error = 0;