On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 08:09:27PM +0800, Liangyan wrote: > +++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c > @@ -973,6 +973,7 @@ static char *ovl_get_redirect(struct dentry *dentry, bool abs_redirect) > for (d = dget(dentry); !IS_ROOT(d);) { > const char *name; > int thislen; > + struct dentry *parent = NULL; > > spin_lock(&d->d_lock); > name = ovl_dentry_get_redirect(d); > @@ -992,7 +993,22 @@ static char *ovl_get_redirect(struct dentry *dentry, bool abs_redirect) > > buflen -= thislen; > memcpy(&buf[buflen], name, thislen); > - tmp = dget_dlock(d->d_parent); > + parent = d->d_parent; > + if (unlikely(!spin_trylock(&parent->d_lock))) { > + rcu_read_lock(); > + spin_unlock(&d->d_lock); > +again: > + parent = READ_ONCE(d->d_parent); > + spin_lock(&parent->d_lock); > + if (unlikely(parent != d->d_parent)) { > + spin_unlock(&parent->d_lock); > + goto again; > + } > + rcu_read_unlock(); > + spin_lock_nested(&d->d_lock, DENTRY_D_LOCK_NESTED); > + } > + tmp = dget_dlock(parent); > + spin_unlock(&parent->d_lock); > spin_unlock(&d->d_lock); Yecchhhh.... What's wrong with just doing spin_unlock(&d->d_lock); parent = dget_parent(d); dput(d); d = parent; instead of that?