From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit f19e4ed1e1edbfa3c9ccb9fed17759b7d6db24c6 upstream. revert cc57c07343bd "configfs: fix registered group removal" It was an attempt to handle something that fundamentally doesn't work - configfs_register_group() should never be done in a part of tree that can be rmdir'ed. And in mainline it never had been, so let's not borrow trouble; the fix was racy anyway, it would take a lot more to make that work and desired semantics is not clear. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/configfs/dir.c | 11 ----------- 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-) --- a/fs/configfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/configfs/dir.c @@ -1782,16 +1782,6 @@ void configfs_unregister_group(struct co struct dentry *dentry = group->cg_item.ci_dentry; struct dentry *parent = group->cg_item.ci_parent->ci_dentry; - mutex_lock(&subsys->su_mutex); - if (!group->cg_item.ci_parent->ci_group) { - /* - * The parent has already been unlinked and detached - * due to a rmdir. - */ - goto unlink_group; - } - mutex_unlock(&subsys->su_mutex); - inode_lock_nested(d_inode(parent), I_MUTEX_PARENT); spin_lock(&configfs_dirent_lock); configfs_detach_prep(dentry, NULL); @@ -1806,7 +1796,6 @@ void configfs_unregister_group(struct co dput(dentry); mutex_lock(&subsys->su_mutex); -unlink_group: unlink_group(group); mutex_unlock(&subsys->su_mutex); }