From 7653fe9d6cddc3fc5e4220608079006d8ac0054c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 14:20:56 -0800 Subject: Revert "kernfs: remove kernfs_addrm_cxt" This reverts commit 99177a34110889a8f2c36420c34e3bcc9bfd8a70. Tejun writes: I'm sorry but can you please revert the whole series? get_active() waiting while a node is deactivated has potential to lead to deadlock and that deactivate/reactivate interface is something fundamentally flawed and that cgroup will have to work with the remove_self() like everybody else. IOW, I think the first posting was correct. Cc: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/kernfs/symlink.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/kernfs/symlink.c') diff --git a/fs/kernfs/symlink.c b/fs/kernfs/symlink.c index 3a939c263ede..b2c106ca3434 100644 --- a/fs/kernfs/symlink.c +++ b/fs/kernfs/symlink.c @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ struct kernfs_node *kernfs_create_link(struct kernfs_node *parent, struct kernfs_node *target) { struct kernfs_node *kn; + struct kernfs_addrm_cxt acxt; int error; kn = kernfs_new_node(kernfs_root(parent), name, S_IFLNK|S_IRWXUGO, @@ -39,7 +40,14 @@ struct kernfs_node *kernfs_create_link(struct kernfs_node *parent, kn->symlink.target_kn = target; kernfs_get(target); /* ref owned by symlink */ - error = kernfs_add_one(kn, parent); + error = -ENOENT; + if (kernfs_get_active(parent)) { + kernfs_addrm_start(&acxt); + error = kernfs_add_one(&acxt, kn, parent); + kernfs_addrm_finish(&acxt); + kernfs_put_active(parent); + } + if (!error) return kn; -- cgit v1.2.3