[ 041/124] Nest rename_lock inside vfsmount_lock

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

3.8-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 7ea600b5314529f9d1b9d6d3c41cb26fce6a7a4a upstream.

... lest we get livelocks between path_is_under() and d_path() and friends.

The thing is, wrt fairness lglocks are more similar to rwsems than to rwlocks;
it is possible to have thread B spin on attempt to take lock shared while thread
A is already holding it shared, if B is on lower-numbered CPU than A and there's
a thread C spinning on attempt to take the same lock exclusive.

As the result, we need consistent ordering between vfsmount_lock (lglock) and
rename_lock (seq_lock), even though everything that takes both is going to take
vfsmount_lock only shared.

Spotted-by: Brad Spengler <spender@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 fs/dcache.c |   16 +++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -2552,7 +2552,6 @@ static int prepend_path(const struct pat
 	bool slash = false;
 	int error = 0;
 
-	br_read_lock(&vfsmount_lock);
 	while (dentry != root->dentry || vfsmnt != root->mnt) {
 		struct dentry * parent;
 
@@ -2582,8 +2581,6 @@ static int prepend_path(const struct pat
 	if (!error && !slash)
 		error = prepend(buffer, buflen, "/", 1);
 
-out:
-	br_read_unlock(&vfsmount_lock);
 	return error;
 
 global_root:
@@ -2600,7 +2597,7 @@ global_root:
 		error = prepend(buffer, buflen, "/", 1);
 	if (!error)
 		error = is_mounted(vfsmnt) ? 1 : 2;
-	goto out;
+	return error;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -2627,9 +2624,11 @@ char *__d_path(const struct path *path,
 	int error;
 
 	prepend(&res, &buflen, "\0", 1);
+	br_read_lock(&vfsmount_lock);
 	write_seqlock(&rename_lock);
 	error = prepend_path(path, root, &res, &buflen);
 	write_sequnlock(&rename_lock);
+	br_read_unlock(&vfsmount_lock);
 
 	if (error < 0)
 		return ERR_PTR(error);
@@ -2646,9 +2645,11 @@ char *d_absolute_path(const struct path
 	int error;
 
 	prepend(&res, &buflen, "\0", 1);
+	br_read_lock(&vfsmount_lock);
 	write_seqlock(&rename_lock);
 	error = prepend_path(path, &root, &res, &buflen);
 	write_sequnlock(&rename_lock);
+	br_read_unlock(&vfsmount_lock);
 
 	if (error > 1)
 		error = -EINVAL;
@@ -2712,11 +2713,13 @@ char *d_path(const struct path *path, ch
 		return path->dentry->d_op->d_dname(path->dentry, buf, buflen);
 
 	get_fs_root(current->fs, &root);
+	br_read_lock(&vfsmount_lock);
 	write_seqlock(&rename_lock);
 	error = path_with_deleted(path, &root, &res, &buflen);
+	write_sequnlock(&rename_lock);
+	br_read_unlock(&vfsmount_lock);
 	if (error < 0)
 		res = ERR_PTR(error);
-	write_sequnlock(&rename_lock);
 	path_put(&root);
 	return res;
 }
@@ -2871,6 +2874,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(getcwd, char __user *, b
 	get_fs_root_and_pwd(current->fs, &root, &pwd);
 
 	error = -ENOENT;
+	br_read_lock(&vfsmount_lock);
 	write_seqlock(&rename_lock);
 	if (!d_unlinked(pwd.dentry)) {
 		unsigned long len;
@@ -2880,6 +2884,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(getcwd, char __user *, b
 		prepend(&cwd, &buflen, "\0", 1);
 		error = prepend_path(&pwd, &root, &cwd, &buflen);
 		write_sequnlock(&rename_lock);
+		br_read_unlock(&vfsmount_lock);
 
 		if (error < 0)
 			goto out;
@@ -2900,6 +2905,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(getcwd, char __user *, b
 		}
 	} else {
 		write_sequnlock(&rename_lock);
+		br_read_unlock(&vfsmount_lock);
 	}
 
 out:


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