[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 100/110] d_walk() might skip too much
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Fri Jun 5 13:58:23 UTC 2015
3.16.7-ckt13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
commit 2159184ea01e4ae7d15f2017e296d4bc82d5aeb0 upstream.
when we find that a child has died while we'd been trying to ascend,
we should go into the first live sibling itself, rather than its sibling.
Off-by-one in question had been introduced in "deal with deadlock in
d_walk()" and the fix needs to be backported to all branches this one
has been backported to.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
fs/dcache.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index e2dc0874a1f0..05a041a134c4 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -1132,13 +1132,13 @@ ascend:
/* might go back up the wrong parent if we have had a rename. */
if (need_seqretry(&rename_lock, seq))
goto rename_retry;
- next = child->d_child.next;
- while (unlikely(child->d_flags & DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED)) {
+ /* go into the first sibling still alive */
+ do {
+ next = child->d_child.next;
if (next == &this_parent->d_subdirs)
goto ascend;
child = list_entry(next, struct dentry, d_child);
- next = next->next;
- }
+ } while (unlikely(child->d_flags & DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED));
rcu_read_unlock();
goto resume;
}
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