Re: [PATCH] afs: Fix cell proc list

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Oct 12 2018 - 07:31:38 EST


On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 10:45:49PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Access to the list of cells by /proc/net/afs/cells has a couple of
> problems:
>
> (1) It should be checking against SEQ_START_TOKEN for the keying the
> header line.
>
> (2) It's only holding the RCU read lock, so it can't just walk over the
> list without following the proper RCU methods.
>
> Fix these by using an hlist instead of an ordinary list and using the
> appropriate accessor functions to follow it with RCU.
>
> Since the code that adds a cell to the list must also necessarily change,
> sort the list on insertion whilst we're at it.
>
> Fixes: 989782dcdc91 ("afs: Overhaul cell database management")
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>

Now applied, thanks.

greg k-h