[SRU B][PATCH 6/6] cachefiles: Wait rather than BUG'ing on "Unexpected object collision"

Daniel Axtens daniel.axtens at canonical.com
Thu Aug 2 04:17:34 UTC 2018


From: Kiran Kumar Modukuri <kiran.modukuri at gmail.com>

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776254

If we meet a conflicting object that is marked FSCACHE_OBJECT_IS_LIVE in
the active object tree, we have been emitting a BUG after logging
information about it and the new object.

Instead, we should wait for the CACHEFILES_OBJECT_ACTIVE flag to be cleared
on the old object (or return an error).  The ACTIVE flag should be cleared
after it has been removed from the active object tree.  A timeout of 60s is
used in the wait, so we shouldn't be able to get stuck there.

Fixes: 9ae326a69004 ("CacheFiles: A cache that backs onto a mounted filesystem")
Signed-off-by: Kiran Kumar Modukuri <kiran.modukuri at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit c2412ac45a8f8f1cd582723c1a139608694d410d)
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <daniel.axtens at canonical.com>
---
 fs/cachefiles/namei.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/namei.c b/fs/cachefiles/namei.c
index 6c9758ec8cef..cd85cf2162ff 100644
--- a/fs/cachefiles/namei.c
+++ b/fs/cachefiles/namei.c
@@ -197,7 +197,6 @@ static int cachefiles_mark_object_active(struct cachefiles_cache *cache,
 		pr_err("\n");
 		pr_err("Error: Unexpected object collision\n");
 		cachefiles_printk_object(object, xobject);
-		BUG();
 	}
 	atomic_inc(&xobject->usage);
 	write_unlock(&cache->active_lock);
-- 
2.17.1





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