configfs: provide exclusion between IO and removals
commit b0841eefd9693827afb9888235e26ddd098f9cef upstream.
Make sure that attribute methods are not called after the item
has been removed from the tree. To do so, we
* at the point of no return in removals, grab ->frag_sem
exclusive and mark the fragment dead.
* call the methods of attributes with ->frag_sem taken
shared and only after having verified that the fragment is still
alive.
The main benefit is for method instances - they are
guaranteed that the objects they are accessing *and* all ancestors
are still there. Another win is that we don't need to bother
with extra refcount on config_item when opening a file -
the item will be alive for as long as it stays in the tree, and
we won't touch it/attributes/any associated data after it's
been removed from the tree.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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