fs: make sure data stored into inode is properly seen before unlocking new inode
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:01:06 +0000 (17:01 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:17:24 +0000 (07:17 -0700)
commit580be0837a7a59b207c3d5c661d044d8dd0a6a30
tree4a659c92ed738367c1ed4d9b1b50fe018f401b81
parent5be461657be65460ad92be3527e3bb1dd11c49ea
fs: make sure data stored into inode is properly seen before unlocking new inode

In theory it could happen that on one CPU we initialize a new inode but
clearing of I_NEW | I_LOCK gets reordered before some of the
initialization.  Thus on another CPU we return not fully uptodate inode
from iget_locked().

This seems to fix a corruption issue on ext3 mounted over NFS.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add some commentary]
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/inode.c