ext4: Replace lock/unlock_super() with an explicit lock for the orphan list

Use a separate lock to protect the orphan list, so we can stop
overloading the use of lock_super().

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index 22098e1cd08..8018e49a728 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -1997,7 +1997,7 @@ int ext4_orphan_add(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode)
 	if (!ext4_handle_valid(handle))
 		return 0;
 
-	lock_super(sb);
+	mutex_lock(&EXT4_SB(sb)->s_orphan_lock);
 	if (!list_empty(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_orphan))
 		goto out_unlock;
 
@@ -2006,9 +2006,13 @@ int ext4_orphan_add(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode)
 
 	/* @@@ FIXME: Observation from aviro:
 	 * I think I can trigger J_ASSERT in ext4_orphan_add().  We block
-	 * here (on lock_super()), so race with ext4_link() which might bump
+	 * here (on s_orphan_lock), so race with ext4_link() which might bump
 	 * ->i_nlink. For, say it, character device. Not a regular file,
 	 * not a directory, not a symlink and ->i_nlink > 0.
+	 *
+	 * tytso, 4/25/2009: I'm not sure how that could happen;
+	 * shouldn't the fs core protect us from these sort of
+	 * unlink()/link() races?
 	 */
 	J_ASSERT((S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) || S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) ||
 		  S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode)) || inode->i_nlink == 0);
@@ -2045,7 +2049,7 @@ int ext4_orphan_add(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode)
 	jbd_debug(4, "orphan inode %lu will point to %d\n",
 			inode->i_ino, NEXT_ORPHAN(inode));
 out_unlock:
-	unlock_super(sb);
+	mutex_unlock(&EXT4_SB(sb)->s_orphan_lock);
 	ext4_std_error(inode->i_sb, err);
 	return err;
 }
@@ -2066,11 +2070,9 @@ int ext4_orphan_del(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode)
 	if (!ext4_handle_valid(handle))
 		return 0;
 
-	lock_super(inode->i_sb);
-	if (list_empty(&ei->i_orphan)) {
-		unlock_super(inode->i_sb);
-		return 0;
-	}
+	mutex_lock(&EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_orphan_lock);
+	if (list_empty(&ei->i_orphan))
+		goto out;
 
 	ino_next = NEXT_ORPHAN(inode);
 	prev = ei->i_orphan.prev;
@@ -2120,7 +2122,7 @@ int ext4_orphan_del(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode)
 out_err:
 	ext4_std_error(inode->i_sb, err);
 out:
-	unlock_super(inode->i_sb);
+	mutex_unlock(&EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_orphan_lock);
 	return err;
 
 out_brelse: