Re: [syzbot] [overlayfs?] WARNING in shmem_unlink

[Hillf Danton]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 10:33:52 +1000 NeilBrown wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Aug 2025, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> > Neil,
> >
> > I will have a look tomorrow.
> > If you have ideas I am open to hear them.
> > The repro is mounting overlayfs all over each other in concurrent threads
> > and one of the rmdir of "work" dir triggers this assertion
> 
> My guess is that by dropping and retaking the lock, we open the
> possibility of a race so that by the time vfs_unlink() is called the
> dentry has already been unlinked.  In that case it would be unhashed.
> So after retaking the lock we need to check d_unhashed() as well as
> ->d_parent.
> 
> So something like

#syz test upstream master

--- a/fs/overlayfs/util.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/util.c
@@ -1552,7 +1552,8 @@ void ovl_copyattr(struct inode *inode)
 int ovl_parent_lock(struct dentry *parent, struct dentry *child)
 {
 	inode_lock_nested(parent->d_inode, I_MUTEX_PARENT);
-	if (!child || child->d_parent == parent)
+	if (!child ||
+	    (!d_unhashed(child) && child->d_parent == parent))
 		return 0;
 
 	inode_unlock(parent->d_inode);
--