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We use di_format and if_flags to decide whether we're grabbing the ilock in btree mode (btree extents not loaded) or shared mode (anything else), but the state of those fields can be changed by other threads that are also trying to load the btree extents -- IFEXTENTS gets set before the _bmap_read_extents call and cleared if it fails. We don't actually need to have IFEXTENTS set until after the bmbt records are successfully loaded and validated, which will fix the race between multiple threads trying to read the same directory. The next patch strengthens directory bmbt validation by refusing to open the directory if reading the bmbt to start directory readahead fails. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.