[PATCH]2.4.19-pre9: fs/locks.c

Saurabh Desai (sdesai@austin.ibm.com)
Fri, 31 May 2002 17:29:39 -0500


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The following patch addresses problem associated with
process locks when called from cloned process created with
CLONE_THREAD flag. The fcntl locks are per-process and
creates a dead-lock for cloned (w/CLONE_THREAD) processes.
It should use tgid instead pid (same way as getpid()).

Thanks,
Saurabh Desai (sdesai@austin.ibm.com)
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diff -Naur linux-2.4.19-pre9/fs/locks.c linux-2.4.19-pre9-patch/fs/locks.c
--- linux-2.4.19-pre9/fs/locks.c Thu Oct 11 09:52:18 2001
+++ linux-2.4.19-pre9-patch/fs/locks.c Fri May 31 13:40:49 2002
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@

fl->fl_owner = NULL;
fl->fl_file = filp;
- fl->fl_pid = current->pid;
+ fl->fl_pid = current->tgid;
fl->fl_flags = FL_FLOCK;
fl->fl_type = type;
fl->fl_start = 0;
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@
fl->fl_end = OFFSET_MAX;

fl->fl_owner = current->files;
- fl->fl_pid = current->pid;
+ fl->fl_pid = current->tgid;
fl->fl_file = filp;
fl->fl_flags = FL_POSIX;
fl->fl_notify = NULL;
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@
fl->fl_end = OFFSET_MAX;

fl->fl_owner = current->files;
- fl->fl_pid = current->pid;
+ fl->fl_pid = current->tgid;
fl->fl_file = filp;
fl->fl_flags = FL_POSIX;
fl->fl_notify = NULL;
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@
return -ENOMEM;

fl->fl_owner = current->files;
- fl->fl_pid = current->pid;
+ fl->fl_pid = current->tgid;

fl->fl_file = filp;
fl->fl_flags = FL_LEASE;
@@ -719,7 +719,7 @@
return -ENOMEM;

new_fl->fl_owner = current->files;
- new_fl->fl_pid = current->pid;
+ new_fl->fl_pid = current->tgid;
new_fl->fl_file = filp;
new_fl->fl_flags = FL_POSIX | FL_ACCESS;
new_fl->fl_type = (read_write == FLOCK_VERIFY_WRITE) ? F_WRLCK : F_RDLCK;

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