[ 036/218] vfs: dcache: use DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED instead of DCACHE_DISCONNECTED in d_kill()

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

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

------------------

From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>

commit b161dfa6937ae46d50adce8a7c6b12233e96e7bd upstream.

IBM reported a soft lockup after applying the fix for the rename_lock
deadlock.  Commit c83ce989cb5f ("VFS: Fix the nfs sillyrename regression
in kernel 2.6.38") was found to be the culprit.

The nfs sillyrename fix used DCACHE_DISCONNECTED to indicate that the
dentry was killed.  This flag can be set on non-killed dentries too,
which results in infinite retries when trying to traverse the dentry
tree.

This patch introduces a separate flag: DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED, which is
only set in d_kill() and makes try_to_ascend() test only this flag.

IBM reported successful test results with this patch.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 fs/dcache.c            |    4 ++--
 include/linux/dcache.h |    2 ++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ static struct dentry *d_kill(struct dent
 	 * Inform try_to_ascend() that we are no longer attached to the
 	 * dentry tree
 	 */
-	dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_DISCONNECTED;
+	dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED;
 	if (parent)
 		spin_unlock(&parent->d_lock);
 	dentry_iput(dentry);
@@ -1030,7 +1030,7 @@ static struct dentry *try_to_ascend(stru
 	 * or deletion
 	 */
 	if (new != old->d_parent ||
-		 (old->d_flags & DCACHE_DISCONNECTED) ||
+		 (old->d_flags & DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED) ||
 		 (!locked && read_seqretry(&rename_lock, seq))) {
 		spin_unlock(&new->d_lock);
 		new = NULL;
--- a/include/linux/dcache.h
+++ b/include/linux/dcache.h
@@ -191,6 +191,8 @@ struct dentry_operations {
 #define DCACHE_MANAGED_DENTRY \
 	(DCACHE_MOUNTED|DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT|DCACHE_MANAGE_TRANSIT)
 
+#define DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED	0x100000
+
 extern seqlock_t rename_lock;
 
 static inline int dname_external(struct dentry *dentry)


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