Currently we call it with refcount equal to 1 when called from
dentry_kill(); all other callers have it equal to 0.
Make it always be called with zero refcount; on this step we
just decrement it before the calls in dentry_kill(). That is
safe, since all places that care about the value of refcount
either do that under ->d_lock or hold a reference to dentry
in question. Either is sufficient to prevent observing a
dentry immediately prior to __dentry_kill() getting called
from dentry_kill().
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/dcache.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 1f61a5d03d5b..d9466cab4884 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -729,6 +729,7 @@ static struct dentry *dentry_kill(struct dentry *dentry)
goto slow_positive;
}
}
+ dentry->d_lockref.count--;
__dentry_kill(dentry);
return parent;
@@ -741,6 +742,7 @@ static struct dentry *dentry_kill(struct dentry *dentry)
if (unlikely(dentry->d_lockref.count != 1)) {
dentry->d_lockref.count--;
} else if (likely(!retain_dentry(dentry))) {
+ dentry->d_lockref.count--;
__dentry_kill(dentry);
return parent;
} else {
--
2.39.2
