Remove locking of moved directory in ext4_rename2(). We will take care
of it in VFS instead. This effectively reverts commit 0813299c586b
("ext4: Fix possible corruption when moving a directory") and followup
fixes.
CC: Ted Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx>
CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/namei.c | 17 ++---------------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index 45b579805c95..0caf6c730ce3 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -3834,19 +3834,10 @@ static int ext4_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *old_dir,
return retval;
}
- /*
- * We need to protect against old.inode directory getting converted
- * from inline directory format into a normal one.
- */
- if (S_ISDIR(old.inode->i_mode))
- inode_lock_nested(old.inode, I_MUTEX_NONDIR2);
-
old.bh = ext4_find_entry(old.dir, &old.dentry->d_name, &old.de,
&old.inlined);
- if (IS_ERR(old.bh)) {
- retval = PTR_ERR(old.bh);
- goto unlock_moved_dir;
- }
+ if (IS_ERR(old.bh))
+ return PTR_ERR(old.bh);
/*
* Check for inode number is _not_ due to possible IO errors.
@@ -4043,10 +4034,6 @@ static int ext4_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *old_dir,
brelse(old.bh);
brelse(new.bh);
-unlock_moved_dir:
- if (S_ISDIR(old.inode->i_mode))
- inode_unlock(old.inode);
-
return retval;
}
--
2.35.3
