Linus Torvalds
a360f311f5
This was attempted by using the dev_name in the slab cache name, but as
Omar Sandoval pointed out, that can be an arbitrary string, eg something
like "/dev/root". Which in turn trips verify_dirent_name(), which fails
if a filename contains a slash.
So just make it use a sequence counter, and make it an atomic_t to avoid
any possible races or locking issues.
Reported-and-tested-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZxafcO8KWMlXaeWE@telecaster.dhcp.thefacebook.com/
Fixes: 79efebae4a ("9p: Avoid creating multiple slab caches with the same name")
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@leemhuis.info>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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