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authorFabricio Voznika <fvoznika@google.com>2021-07-12 18:27:59 -0700
committergVisor bot <gvisor-bot@google.com>2021-07-12 18:30:46 -0700
commit520795aaad701854e9ffe84de1108954cf2b77f8 (patch)
tree9f2aa17263053f5fd3edd7614679341202129c08 /pkg/sentry/fsimpl/overlay/overlay.go
parent275932bf0852431b6f307ba9c45f26073d20ac62 (diff)
Fix deadlock in procfs
Kernfs provides an internal mechanism to defer calls to `DecRef()` because on the last reference `Filesystem.mu` must be held and most places that need to call `DecRef()` are inside the lock. The same can be true for filesystems that extend kernfs. procfs needs to look up files and `DecRef()` them inside the `kernfs.Filesystem.mu`. If the files happen to be procfs files, it can deadlock trying to decrement if it's the last reference. This change extends the mechanism to external callers to defer DecRefs to `vfs.FileDescription` and `vfs.VirtualDentries`. PiperOrigin-RevId: 384361647
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