Re: [PATCH 5/8] exofs: dir_inode and directory operations

From: Boaz Harrosh
Date: Sun Mar 15 2009 - 14:13:24 EST


Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 03:24:13PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh (bharrosh@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>>
<snip>
> <snip>
>>> +
>>> + atomic_inc(&inode->i_count);
>>> +
>>> + ret = exofs_async_op(or, create_done, inode, oi->i_cred);
>>> + if (ret) {
>>> + atomic_dec(&inode->i_count);
>> igrab()/iput()?
>>
>
> Thanks, makes much more sense. Sorry leftovers from 2.6.10
>

It's the same at ext2. I looked at the igrab()/iput() code it does some extra
locks which I'm afraid of at this stage. I'll postpone this to the next (next)
merge window, after I ran with it for a while.

>>> + osd_end_request(or);
>>> + return ERR_PTR(-EIO);
>>> + }
>>> + atomic_inc(&sbi->s_curr_pending);
>>> +
>>> + return inode;
>>> +}
>>> +static int exofs_mkdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, int mode)
>>> +{
>>> + struct inode *inode;
>>> + int err = -EMLINK;
>>> +
>>> + if (dir->i_nlink >= EXOFS_LINK_MAX)
>>> + goto out;
>>> +
>>> + inode_inc_link_count(dir);
>>> +
>>> + inode = exofs_new_inode(dir, S_IFDIR | mode);
>>> + err = PTR_ERR(inode);
>>> + if (IS_ERR(inode))
>>> + goto out_dir;
>>> +
>>> + inode->i_op = &exofs_dir_inode_operations;
>>> + inode->i_fop = &exofs_dir_operations;
>>> + inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &exofs_aops;
>>> +
>>> + inode_inc_link_count(inode);
>>> +
>>> + err = exofs_make_empty(inode, dir);
>>> + if (err)
>>> + goto out_fail;
>>> +
>>> + err = exofs_add_link(dentry, inode);
>>> + if (err)
>>> + goto out_fail;
>>> +
>>> + d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
>>> +out:
>>> + return err;
>>> +
>>> +out_fail:
>>> + inode_dec_link_count(inode);
>>> + inode_dec_link_count(inode);
>> Why two decrements, will it be ok after exofs_make_empty() fail when it
>> was incremented only once?
>>
>
> That's hard to say, I'll investigate it some more.
> Thanks
>

I've put some prints and current code is correct. inode->i_nlink (the target
of inode_dec_link_count()) is 1 after exofs_new_inode() and 2 after
inode_inc_link_count() (Just before exofs_make_empty()). Very confusing, but
exofs_add_link() does not touch inode->i_nlink.

I will be posting a new set tomorrow

Thanks
Boaz

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