We used to put them on a single list, without any locking. Racy.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
/*
* __mark_inode_dirty expects inodes to be hashed. Since we don't want
- * special inodes in the fileset inode space, we hash them to a dummy head
+ * special inodes in the fileset inode space, we make them appear hashed,
+ * but do not put on any lists.
*/
-static HLIST_HEAD(aggregate_hash);
/*
* imap locks
/* release the page */
release_metapage(mp);
- hlist_add_head(&ip->i_hash, &aggregate_hash);
+ /*
+ * that will look hashed, but won't be on any list; hlist_del()
+ * will work fine and require no locking.
+ */
+ ip->i_hash.pprev = &ip->i_hash.next;
return (ip);
}