Revert d949d1d14fa2 ("mm: shmem: fix data-race in shmem_getattr()") as suggested by Chuck [1]. It is causing deadlocks when accessing tmpfs over NFS. As Hugh commented, "added just to silence a syzbot sanitizer splat: added where there has never been any practical problem". Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZzdxKF39VEmXSSyN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [1] Fixes: d949d1d14fa2 ("mm: shmem: fix data-race in shmem_getattr()") Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jeongjun Park <aha310510@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index e87f5d6799a7..568bb290bdce 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -1166,9 +1166,7 @@ static int shmem_getattr(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, stat->attributes_mask |= (STATX_ATTR_APPEND | STATX_ATTR_IMMUTABLE | STATX_ATTR_NODUMP); - inode_lock_shared(inode); generic_fillattr(idmap, request_mask, inode, stat); - inode_unlock_shared(inode); if (shmem_huge_global_enabled(inode, 0, 0, false, NULL, 0)) stat->blksize = HPAGE_PMD_SIZE;