The usage of read_seqbegin_or_lock() in nfsd_copy_write_verifier()
is wrong. "seq" is always even and thus "or_lock" has no effect,
this code can never take ->writeverf_lock for writing.
I guess this is fine, nfsd_copy_write_verifier() just copies 8 bytes
and nfsd_reset_write_verifier() is supposed to be very rare operation
so we do not need the adaptive locking in this case.
Yet the code looks wrong and sub-optimal, it can use read_seqbegin()
without changing the behaviour.
[ cel: Note also that it eliminates this Sparse warning:
fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c:360:6: warning: context imbalance in 'nfsd_copy_write_verifier' -
different lock contexts for basic block
]
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
*/
void nfsd_copy_write_verifier(__be32 verf[2], struct nfsd_net *nn)
{
- int seq = 0;
+ unsigned int seq;
do {
- read_seqbegin_or_lock(&nn->writeverf_lock, &seq);
+ seq = read_seqbegin(&nn->writeverf_lock);
memcpy(verf, nn->writeverf, sizeof(nn->writeverf));
- } while (need_seqretry(&nn->writeverf_lock, seq));
- done_seqretry(&nn->writeverf_lock, seq);
+ } while (read_seqretry(&nn->writeverf_lock, seq));
}
static void nfsd_reset_write_verifier_locked(struct nfsd_net *nn)