[PATCH v6 06/12] vfs: lookup_open(): lock the parent as I_MUTEX_PARENT

[Jori Koolstra]

lookup_open() takes the parent directory's i_rwsem with inode_lock(),
that is, in the I_MUTEX_NORMAL class, before creating the last
component. Every other VFS path that locks a directory in order to
create something in it goes through start_dirop() and friends, which
use inode_lock_nested(dir, I_MUTEX_PARENT).

Lock the parent as I_MUTEX_PARENT here too, so that lookup_open()
matches the rest of the VFS before it starts calling ->mkdir(), which
until now was only ever reached with the parent held that way.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/namei.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 90c8be0257be..0efd395a1a65 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -4482,7 +4482,7 @@ static struct dentry *lookup_open(struct nameidata *nd, struct file *file,
 		 */
 	}
 	if (open_flag & O_CREAT)
-		inode_lock(dir_inode);
+		inode_lock_nested(dir_inode, I_MUTEX_PARENT);
 	else
 		inode_lock_shared(dir_inode);
 
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