afs: Fix race between post-modification dir edit and readdir/d_revalidate

AFS directories are retained locally as a structured file, with lookup
being effected by a local search of the file contents.  When a modification
(such as mkdir) happens, the dir file content is modified locally rather
than redownloading the directory.

The directory contents are accessed in a number of ways, with a number of
different locks schemes:

 (1) Download of contents - dvnode->validate_lock/write in afs_read_dir().

 (2) Lookup and readdir - dvnode->validate_lock/read in afs_dir_iterate(),
     downgrading from (1) if necessary.

 (3) d_revalidate of child dentry - dvnode->validate_lock/read in
     afs_do_lookup_one() downgrading from (1) if necessary.

 (4) Edit of dir after modification - page locks on individual dir pages.

Unfortunately, because (4) uses different locking scheme to (1) - (3),
nothing protects against the page being scanned whilst the edit is
underway.  Even download is not safe as it doesn't lock the pages - relying
instead on the validate_lock to serialise as a whole (the theory being that
directory contents are treated as a block and always downloaded as a
block).

Fix this by write-locking dvnode->validate_lock around the edits.  Care
must be taken in the rename case as there may be two different dirs - but
they need not be locked at the same time.  In any case, once the lock is
taken, the directory version must be rechecked, and the edit skipped if a
later version has been downloaded by revalidation (there can't have been
any local changes because the VFS holds the inode lock, but there can have
been remote changes).

Fixes: 63a4681ff39c ("afs: Locally edit directory data for mkdir/create/unlink/...")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

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