posix_acl: de-union a_refcount and a_rcu

Currently the two are unioned together, but I don't think that's safe.

It looks like get_cached_acl could race with the last put in
posix_acl_release. get_cached_acl calls atomic_inc_not_zero on
a_refcount, but that field could have already been clobbered by
call_rcu, and may no longer be zero. Fix this by de-unioning the two
fields.

Fixes: b8a7a3a66747 (posix_acl: Inode acl caching fixes)
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

diff --git a/include/linux/posix_acl.h b/include/linux/posix_acl.h
index 5b5a80cc59265882813cddba568b0875797e5e6b..c818772d9f9d13538309226a89894b03a78c1aa4 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/posix_acl.h
+++ b/include/linux/posix_acl.h
@@ -43,10 +43,8 @@ struct posix_acl_entry {
 };
 
 struct posix_acl {
-       union {
-               atomic_t                a_refcount;
-               struct rcu_head         a_rcu;
-       };
+       atomic_t                a_refcount;
+       struct rcu_head         a_rcu;
        unsigned int            a_count;
        struct posix_acl_entry  a_entries[0];
 };