The listxattr() and getxattr() operations are only protected by a read
lock. As a result, if either of these operations run in parallel, a race
condition exists where the xattr_root will end up being cached twice, which
results in the leaking of a reference and a BUG() on umount.
This patch refactors get_xa_root(), __get_xa_root(), and create_xa_root(),
into one get_xa_root() function that takes the appropriate locking around
the entire critical section.
Reported, diagnosed and tested by Andrea Righi <a.righi@cineca.it>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Andrea Righi <a.righi@cineca.it>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
Cc: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
Cc: Alex Zarochentsev <zam@namesys.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jeff Mahoney