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authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>2012-09-17 22:31:38 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-09-18 20:23:51 +0200
commitb161dfa6937ae46d50adce8a7c6b12233e96e7bd (patch)
tree51ca2936e508c2c0f4a330c6dfdb1535a26eb6f9 /fs
parentMerge branch 'for-3.6-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git... (diff)
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vfs: dcache: use DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED instead of DCACHE_DISCONNECTED in d_kill()
IBM reported a soft lockup after applying the fix for the rename_lock deadlock. Commit c83ce989cb5f ("VFS: Fix the nfs sillyrename regression in kernel 2.6.38") was found to be the culprit. The nfs sillyrename fix used DCACHE_DISCONNECTED to indicate that the dentry was killed. This flag can be set on non-killed dentries too, which results in infinite retries when trying to traverse the dentry tree. This patch introduces a separate flag: DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED, which is only set in d_kill() and makes try_to_ascend() test only this flag. IBM reported successful test results with this patch. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/dcache.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 8086636bf796..16521a9f2038 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ static struct dentry *d_kill(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *parent)
* Inform try_to_ascend() that we are no longer attached to the
* dentry tree
*/
- dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_DISCONNECTED;
+ dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED;
if (parent)
spin_unlock(&parent->d_lock);
dentry_iput(dentry);
@@ -1048,7 +1048,7 @@ static struct dentry *try_to_ascend(struct dentry *old, int locked, unsigned seq
* or deletion
*/
if (new != old->d_parent ||
- (old->d_flags & DCACHE_DISCONNECTED) ||
+ (old->d_flags & DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED) ||
(!locked && read_seqretry(&rename_lock, seq))) {
spin_unlock(&new->d_lock);
new = NULL;