afs: prevent double cell registration
authorSven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>
Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:15:55 +0000 (14:15 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:45:21 +0000 (14:45 -0700)
kafs doesn't check if the cell already exists - so if you do an echo "add
newcell.org 1.2.3.4" >/proc/fs/afs/cells it will try to create this cell
again.  kobject will also complain about a double registration.  To prevent
such problems, return -EEXIST in that case.

Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/afs/cell.c

index 970d38f..788865d 100644 (file)
@@ -127,14 +127,20 @@ struct afs_cell *afs_cell_create(const char *name, char *vllist)
 
        _enter("%s,%s", name, vllist);
 
+       down_write(&afs_cells_sem);
+       read_lock(&afs_cells_lock);
+       list_for_each_entry(cell, &afs_cells, link) {
+               if (strcasecmp(cell->name, name) == 0)
+                       goto duplicate_name;
+       }
+       read_unlock(&afs_cells_lock);
+
        cell = afs_cell_alloc(name, vllist);
        if (IS_ERR(cell)) {
                _leave(" = %ld", PTR_ERR(cell));
                return cell;
        }
 
-       down_write(&afs_cells_sem);
-
        /* add a proc directory for this cell */
        ret = afs_proc_cell_setup(cell);
        if (ret < 0)
@@ -167,6 +173,11 @@ error:
        kfree(cell);
        _leave(" = %d", ret);
        return ERR_PTR(ret);
+
+duplicate_name:
+       read_unlock(&afs_cells_lock);
+       up_write(&afs_cells_sem);
+       return ERR_PTR(-EEXIST);
 }
 
 /*