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knfsd: fix reply cache memory corruption

Fix a regression in the reply cache introduced when the code was
converted to use proper Linux lists.  When a new entry needs to be
inserted, the case where all the entries are currently being used
by threads is not correctly detected.  This can result in memory
corruption and a crash.  In the current code this is an extremely
unlikely corner case; it would require the machine to have 1024
nfsd threads and all of them to be busy at the same time.  However,
upcoming reply cache changes make this more likely; a crash due to
this problem was actually observed in field.

Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Greg Banks 16 years ago
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1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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      fs/nfsd/nfscache.c

+ 2 - 2
fs/nfsd/nfscache.c

@@ -174,8 +174,8 @@ nfsd_cache_lookup(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, int type)
 	}
 	}
 
-	/* This should not happen */
-	if (rp == NULL) {
+	/* All entries on the LRU are in-progress. This should not happen */
+	if (&rp->c_lru == &lru_head) {
 		static int	complaints;
 
 		printk(KERN_WARNING "nfsd: all repcache entries locked!\n");