From b161dfa6937ae46d50adce8a7c6b12233e96e7bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:31:38 +0200 Subject: vfs: dcache: use DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED instead of DCACHE_DISCONNECTED in d_kill() 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 Cc: Trond Myklebust Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/dcache.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/dcache.c') diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index 8086636bf796..16521a9f2038 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ static struct dentry *d_kill(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *parent) * 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); @@ -1048,7 +1048,7 @@ static struct dentry *try_to_ascend(struct dentry *old, int locked, unsigned seq * 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; -- cgit v1.2.3