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