From d267cf77ff0425cd0f3292aa312588baaf304bb5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Brown Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 10:20:12 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Fix race related problem when adding items to and svcrpc auth cache. Fix race related problem when adding items to and svcrpc auth cache. If we don't find the item we are lookng for, we allocate a new one, and then grab the lock again and search to see if it has been added while we did the alloc. If it had been added we need to 'cache_put' the newly created item that we are never going to use. But as it hasn't been initialised properly, putting it can cause an oops. So move the ->init call earlier to that it will always be fully initilised if we have to put it. Thanks to Philipp Matthias Hahn for reporting the problem. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/sunrpc/cache.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/sunrpc/cache.c b/net/sunrpc/cache.c index 7026b0866b7b0..00cb388ece032 100644 --- a/net/sunrpc/cache.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/cache.c @@ -71,7 +71,12 @@ struct cache_head *sunrpc_cache_lookup(struct cache_detail *detail, new = detail->alloc(); if (!new) return NULL; + /* must fully initialise 'new', else + * we might get lose if we need to + * cache_put it soon. + */ cache_init(new); + detail->init(new, key); write_lock(&detail->hash_lock); @@ -85,7 +90,6 @@ struct cache_head *sunrpc_cache_lookup(struct cache_detail *detail, return tmp; } } - detail->init(new, key); new->next = *head; *head = new; detail->entries++; -- 2.47.2