epoll: clear the tfile_check_list on -ELOOP
authorJason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:01:47 +0000 (16:01 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 26 Apr 2012 04:26:33 +0000 (21:26 -0700)
An epoll_ctl(,EPOLL_CTL_ADD,,) operation can return '-ELOOP' to prevent
circular epoll dependencies from being created.  However, in that case we
do not properly clear the 'tfile_check_list'.  Thus, add a call to
clear_tfile_check_list() for the -ELOOP case.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Yurij M. Plotnikov <Yurij.Plotnikov@oktetlabs.ru>
Cc: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@nelhage.com>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Tested-by: Alexandra N. Kossovsky <Alexandra.Kossovsky@oktetlabs.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/eventpoll.c

index 739b0985b398ea2d837af83e26fa305a6cdfdc30..c0b3c70ee87a2b8e0e46c01a87d63ac692aecc71 100644 (file)
@@ -1663,8 +1663,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(epoll_ctl, int, epfd, int, op, int, fd,
        if (op == EPOLL_CTL_ADD) {
                if (is_file_epoll(tfile)) {
                        error = -ELOOP;
-                       if (ep_loop_check(ep, tfile) != 0)
+                       if (ep_loop_check(ep, tfile) != 0) {
+                               clear_tfile_check_list();
                                goto error_tgt_fput;
+                       }
                } else
                        list_add(&tfile->f_tfile_llink, &tfile_check_list);
        }