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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/dcache.c | 10 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst index 331405f4b29f..da8073b592ff 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst @@ -1070,3 +1070,11 @@ The list of children anchored in parent dentry got turned into hlist now. Field names got changed (->d_children/->d_sib instead of ->d_subdirs/->d_child for anchor/entries resp.), so any affected places will be immediately caught by compiler. + +--- + +**mandatory** + +->d_delete() instances are now called for dentries with ->d_lock held +and refcount equal to 0. They are not permitted to drop/regain ->d_lock. +None of in-tree instances did anything of that sort. Make sure yours do not... diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index 80992e49561c..8ce0fe70f303 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -888,15 +888,14 @@ void dput(struct dentry *dentry) } /* Slow case: now with the dentry lock held */ - dentry->d_lockref.count = 1; rcu_read_unlock(); if (likely(retain_dentry(dentry))) { - dentry->d_lockref.count--; spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock); return; } + dentry->d_lockref.count = 1; dentry = dentry_kill(dentry); } } @@ -921,13 +920,8 @@ void dput_to_list(struct dentry *dentry, struct list_head *list) return; } rcu_read_unlock(); - dentry->d_lockref.count = 1; - if (!retain_dentry(dentry)) { - --dentry->d_lockref.count; + if (!retain_dentry(dentry)) to_shrink_list(dentry, list); - } else { - --dentry->d_lockref.count; - } spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock); } |