[Devel] [PATCH 0/2] NFSD: fix races in service per-net resources allocation

Stanislav Kinsbursky skinsbursky at parallels.com
Fri Feb 1 03:28:21 PST 2013


After "NFS" (SUNRPC + NFSd actually) containerization work some basic
principles of SUNRPC service initialization and deinitialization has been
changed: now one service can be shared between different network namespaces
and network "resources" can be attached or detached from the running service.
This leads to races, described here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904870

and which this small patch set is aimed to solve by using per-cpu rw semphores
to sync per-net resources processing and shutdown.

The following series implements...

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Stanislav Kinsbursky (2):
      per-cpu semaphores: export symbols to modules
      SUNRPC: protect transport processing with per-cpu rw semaphore


 include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h |    2 ++
 lib/Makefile               |    2 +-
 lib/percpu-rwsem.c         |    6 ++++++
 net/sunrpc/Kconfig         |    1 +
 net/sunrpc/svc.c           |    2 ++
 net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c      |   33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 6 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)




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