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fasync: re-organize fasync entry insertion to allow it under a spinlock

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You currently cannot use "fasync_helper()" in an atomic environment to
insert a new fasync entry, because it will need to allocate the new
"struct fasync_struct".

Yet fcntl_setlease() wants to call this under lock_flocks(), which is in
the process of being converted from the BKL to a spinlock.

In order to fix this, this abstracts out the actual fasync list
insertion and the fasync allocations into functions of their own, and
teaches fs/locks.c to pre-allocate the fasync_struct entry.  That way
the actual list insertion can happen while holding the required
spinlock.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[bfields@redhat.com: rebase on top of my changes to Arnd's patch]
Tested-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Linus Torvalds 2010-10-27 12:38:12 -04:00 • committed by Arnd Bergmann
commit f7347ce4ee
3 changed files with 74 additions and 19 deletions
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@ -1302,6 +1302,11 @@ struct fasync_struct {
/* SMP safe fasync helpers: */
extern int fasync_helper(int, struct file *, int, struct fasync_struct **);
extern struct fasync_struct *fasync_insert_entry(int, struct file *, struct fasync_struct **, struct fasync_struct *);
extern int fasync_remove_entry(struct file *, struct fasync_struct **);
extern struct fasync_struct *fasync_alloc(void);
extern void fasync_free(struct fasync_struct *);
/* can be called from interrupts */
extern void kill_fasync(struct fasync_struct **, int, int);