much milder d_walk() race

d_walk() relies upon the tree not getting rearranged under it without
rename_lock being touched.  And we do grab rename_lock around the
places that change the tree topology.  Unfortunately, branch reordering
is just as bad from d_walk() POV and we have two places that do it
without touching rename_lock - one in handling of cursors (for ramfs-style
directories) and another in autofs.  autofs one is a separate story; this
commit deals with the cursors.
	* mark cursor dentries explicitly at allocation time
	* make __dentry_kill() leave ->d_child.next pointing to the next
non-cursor sibling, making sure that it won't be moved around unnoticed
before the parent is relocked on ascend-to-parent path in d_walk().
	* make d_walk() skip cursors explicitly; strictly speaking it's
not necessary (all callbacks we pass to d_walk() are no-ops on cursors),
but it makes analysis easier.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
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Al Viro 2016-06-10 11:32:47 -04:00
commit ba65dc5ef1
4 changed files with 55 additions and 9 deletions

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@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ extern int invalidate_inodes(struct super_block *, bool);
extern struct dentry *__d_alloc(struct super_block *, const struct qstr *);
extern int d_set_mounted(struct dentry *dentry);
extern long prune_dcache_sb(struct super_block *sb, struct shrink_control *sc);
extern struct dentry *d_alloc_cursor(struct dentry *);
/*
* read_write.c