We want a class that nests outside of I_MUTEX_NORMAL (for the sake of
callbacks that might want to lock the victim) and inside I_MUTEX_PARENT
(so that a variant of that could be used with parent of the victim
held locked by the caller).
In reality, simple_recursive_removal()
* never holds two locks at once
* holds the lock on parent of dentry passed to callback
* is used only on the trees with fixed topology, so the depths
are not changing.
So the locking order is actually fine.
AFAICS, the best solution is to assign I_MUTEX_CHILD to the locks
grabbed by that thing.
Reported-by: syzbot+169de184e9defe7fe709@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
struct dentry *victim = NULL, *child;
struct inode *inode = this->d_inode;
- inode_lock(inode);
+ inode_lock_nested(inode, I_MUTEX_CHILD);
if (d_is_dir(this))
inode->i_flags |= S_DEAD;
while ((child = find_next_child(this, victim)) == NULL) {
victim = this;
this = this->d_parent;
inode = this->d_inode;
- inode_lock(inode);
+ inode_lock_nested(inode, I_MUTEX_CHILD);
if (simple_positive(victim)) {
d_invalidate(victim); // avoid lost mounts
if (callback)