Re: [deadlock or dead code] ceph_encode_dentry_release() misuse of dget()

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On Thu, 2023-11-16 at 16:28 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 07:50:03AM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> 
> > > Am I missing something subtle here?  Looks like that dget() is never
> > > reached...
> > 
> > No, I think you're correct. That looks like dead code to me too.
> > Probably we can just remove that "if (!dir)" condition altogether.
> > 
> > Did you want to send a patch, or would you rather Xiubo or I do it?
> 
> Up to you...  AFAICS, it had been dead code since ca6c8ae0f793 "ceph: pass
> parent inode info to ceph_encode_dentry_release if we have it".  In other
> words, that "if we have it" had already been true at that point.  Prior
> to that commit dget() in there had been unconditional (and really a deadlock
> fodder); making it conditional had made it actually unreachable and that
> fixed the actual bug.

That makes sense.

Xiubo, would you mind spinning up a patch for this? You're probably in
the best position to make sure it gets tested these days.

Thanks!
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>





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