[cgroup or VFS ?] WARNING: at fs/namespace.c:636 mntput_no_expire+0xac/0xf2()

[Li Zefan]

Li Zefan wrote:
> Al Viro wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 06:41:35AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
>>
>> Aaaargh...
>>
>>         /*
>>          * We don't have to hold all of the locks at the
>>          * same time here because we know that we're the
>>          * last reference to mnt and that no new writers
>>          * can come in.
>>          */
>>         for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
>>                 struct mnt_writer *cpu_writer = &per_cpu(mnt_writers, cpu);
>>                 if (cpu_writer->mnt != mnt)
>>                         continue;
>>                 spin_lock(&cpu_writer->lock);
>>
>> is *almost* OK.  Modulo SMP cache coherency.  We know that nothing should
>> be setting ->mnt to ours anymore, that's fine.  But we do not know if
>> we'd seen *earlier* change done on CPU in question (not the one we
>> are running __mntput() on).
>>
>> I probably would still like to use milder solution in the long run, but for
>> now let's check if turning that into
>>
>>                 struct mnt_writer *cpu_writer = &per_cpu(mnt_writers, cpu);
>>                 spin_lock(&cpu_writer->lock);
>>                 if (cpu_writer->mnt != mnt) {
>> 			spin_unlock(&cpu_writer->lock);
>>                         continue;
>> 		}
>> prevents the problem, OK?
>>
> 
> Sure, I'll try. :)
> 

Not a single warning for the whole weekend, so I think above change works.