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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2014-10-26 19:31:10 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2014-11-03 15:22:16 -0500
commitca5358ef75fc69fee5322a38a340f5739d997c10 (patch)
tree88d4abe38ce55bdac9c8b207a0dce743504e0a28 /fs/dcache.c
parent946e51f2bf37f1656916eb75bd0742ba33983c28 (diff)
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deal with deadlock in d_walk()
... by not hitting rename_retry for reasons other than rename having happened. In other words, do _not_ restart when finding that between unlocking the child and locking the parent the former got into __dentry_kill(). Skip the killed siblings instead... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/dcache.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/dcache.c31
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 8b4c45e40834..e90aa825cc03 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ static void __dentry_kill(struct dentry *dentry)
}
/* if it was on the hash then remove it */
__d_drop(dentry);
- list_del(&dentry->d_child);
+ __list_del_entry(&dentry->d_child);
/*
* Inform d_walk() that we are no longer attached to the
* dentry tree
@@ -1081,33 +1081,31 @@ resume:
/*
* All done at this level ... ascend and resume the search.
*/
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ascend:
if (this_parent != parent) {
struct dentry *child = this_parent;
this_parent = child->d_parent;
- rcu_read_lock();
spin_unlock(&child->d_lock);
spin_lock(&this_parent->d_lock);
- /*
- * might go back up the wrong parent if we have had a rename
- * or deletion
- */
- if (this_parent != child->d_parent ||
- (child->d_flags & DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED) ||
- need_seqretry(&rename_lock, seq)) {
- spin_unlock(&this_parent->d_lock);
- rcu_read_unlock();
+ /* might go back up the wrong parent if we have had a rename. */
+ if (need_seqretry(&rename_lock, seq))
goto rename_retry;
+ next = child->d_child.next;
+ while (unlikely(child->d_flags & DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED)) {
+ if (next == &this_parent->d_subdirs)
+ goto ascend;
+ child = list_entry(next, struct dentry, d_child);
+ next = next->next;
}
rcu_read_unlock();
- next = child->d_child.next;
goto resume;
}
- if (need_seqretry(&rename_lock, seq)) {
- spin_unlock(&this_parent->d_lock);
+ if (need_seqretry(&rename_lock, seq))
goto rename_retry;
- }
+ rcu_read_unlock();
if (finish)
finish(data);
@@ -1117,6 +1115,9 @@ out_unlock:
return;
rename_retry:
+ spin_unlock(&this_parent->d_lock);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ BUG_ON(seq & 1);
if (!retry)
return;
seq = 1;