Fix: consumerd: fd still open after `lttng snapshot record` returns

[lttng-tools.git] / src / common / trace-chunk.c

diff --git a/src/common/trace-chunk.c b/src/common/trace-chunk.c
index 2f31fb689ba0a683e074c74268017b6c8a659a12..5518051960e654b654c118429e00e81b211e3cdc 100644 (file)
--- a/src/common/trace-chunk.c
+++ b/src/common/trace-chunk.c
@@ -1871,7 +1871,6 @@ void free_lttng_trace_chunk_registry_element(struct rcu_head *node)
        struct lttng_trace_chunk_registry_element *element =
                        container_of(node, typeof(*element), rcu_node);
 
-       lttng_trace_chunk_fini(&element->chunk);
        free(element);
 }
 
@@ -1892,6 +1891,24 @@ void lttng_trace_chunk_release(struct urcu_ref *ref)
        if (chunk->in_registry_element) {
                struct lttng_trace_chunk_registry_element *element;
 
+               /*
+                * Release internal chunk attributes immediately and
+                * only use the deferred `call_rcu` work to reclaim the
+                * storage.
+                *
+                * This ensures that file handles are released as soon as
+                * possible which works around a problem we encounter with PRAM fs
+                * mounts (and possibly other non-POSIX compliant file systems):
+                * directories that contain files which are open can't be
+                * rmdir().
+                *
+                * This means that the recording of a snapshot could be
+                * completed, but that it would be impossible for the user to
+                * delete it until the deferred clean-up released the file
+                * handles to its contents.
+                */
+               lttng_trace_chunk_fini(chunk);
+
                element = container_of(chunk, typeof(*element), chunk);
                if (element->registry) {
                        rcu_read_lock();