[PATCH 03/20] afs: Don't over-increment the cell usage count when pinning it

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Thu Apr 5 13:29:48 PDT 2018


AFS cells that are added or set as the workstation cell through /proc are
pinned against removal by setting the AFS_CELL_FL_NO_GC flag on them and
taking a ref.  The ref should be only taken if the flag wasn't already set.

Fix this by making it conditional.

Without this an assertion failure will occur during module removal
indicating that the refcount is too elevated.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
---

 fs/afs/cell.c |    4 ++--
 fs/afs/proc.c |    3 ++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/afs/cell.c b/fs/afs/cell.c
index 69b95faacc5e..721425b98b31 100644
--- a/fs/afs/cell.c
+++ b/fs/afs/cell.c
@@ -334,8 +334,8 @@ int afs_cell_init(struct afs_net *net, const char *rootcell)
 		return PTR_ERR(new_root);
 	}
 
-	set_bit(AFS_CELL_FL_NO_GC, &new_root->flags);
-	afs_get_cell(new_root);
+	if (!test_and_set_bit(AFS_CELL_FL_NO_GC, &new_root->flags))
+		afs_get_cell(new_root);
 
 	/* install the new cell */
 	write_seqlock(&net->cells_lock);
diff --git a/fs/afs/proc.c b/fs/afs/proc.c
index 1c95756335b7..2f04d37eeef0 100644
--- a/fs/afs/proc.c
+++ b/fs/afs/proc.c
@@ -284,7 +284,8 @@ static ssize_t afs_proc_cells_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
 			goto done;
 		}
 
-		set_bit(AFS_CELL_FL_NO_GC, &cell->flags);
+		if (test_and_set_bit(AFS_CELL_FL_NO_GC, &cell->flags))
+			afs_put_cell(net, cell);
 		printk("kAFS: Added new cell '%s'\n", name);
 	} else {
 		goto inval;




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