On Fri 26-05-23 11:45:15, Christian Brauner wrote: > On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 12:16:10PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > Currently the locking order of inode locks for directories that are not > > in ancestor relationship is not defined because all operations that > > needed to lock two directories like this were serialized by > > sb->s_vfs_rename_mutex. However some filesystems need to lock two > > subdirectories for RENAME_EXCHANGE operations and for this we need the > > locking order established even for two tree-unrelated directories. > > Provide a helper function lock_two_inodes() that establishes lock > > ordering for any two inodes and use it in lock_two_directories(). > > > > CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> > > --- > > fs/inode.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > fs/internal.h | 2 ++ > > fs/namei.c | 4 ++-- > > 3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c > > index 577799b7855f..2015fa50d34a 100644 > > --- a/fs/inode.c > > +++ b/fs/inode.c > > @@ -1103,6 +1103,40 @@ void discard_new_inode(struct inode *inode) > > } > > EXPORT_SYMBOL(discard_new_inode); > > > > +/** > > + * lock_two_inodes - lock two inodes (may be regular files but also dirs) > > + * > > + * Lock any non-NULL argument. The caller must make sure that if he is passing > > + * in two directories, one is not ancestor of the other. Zero, one or two > > + * objects may be locked by this function. > > + * > > + * @inode1: first inode to lock > > + * @inode2: second inode to lock > > + * @subclass1: inode lock subclass for the first lock obtained > > + * @subclass2: inode lock subclass for the second lock obtained > > + */ > > +void lock_two_inodes(struct inode *inode1, struct inode *inode2, > > + unsigned subclass1, unsigned subclass2) > > +{ > > + if (!inode1 || !inode2) > > + goto lock; > > Before this change in > > lock_two_nondirectories(struct inode *inode1, struct inode *inode2) > > the swap() would cause the non-NULL inode to always be locked with > I_MUTEX_NONDIR2. Now it can be either I_MUTEX_NORMAL or I_MUTEX_NONDIR2. > Is that change intentional? Kind of. I don't think we really care so I didn't bother to complicate the code for this. If you think keeping the lockdep class consistent is worth it, I can modify the patch... Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR