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dealing with the rest of shrink_dentry_list() livelock
authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Thu, 29 May 2014 13:11:45 +0000 (09:11 -0400)
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Thu, 30 Oct 2014 21:17:45 +0000 (22:17 +0100)
commit641955231ecc5ddaeb2e6b917dd2e606359af6d3
tree6a16e03a83fb67fe8b51d2394b25a1d4a67bb673
parentf0d0762945b54220e4dc34672f8841918a81cd95
dealing with the rest of shrink_dentry_list() livelock

commit b2b80195d8829921506880f6dccd21cabd163d0d upstream.

We have the same problem with ->d_lock order in the inner loop, where
we are dropping references to ancestors.  Same solution, basically -
instead of using dentry_kill() we use lock_parent() (introduced in the
previous commit) to get that lock in a safe way, recheck ->d_count
(in case if lock_parent() has ended up dropping and retaking ->d_lock
and somebody managed to grab a reference during that window), trylock
the inode->i_lock and use __dentry_kill() to do the rest.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
fs/dcache.c