On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 02:20:32AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-04-26 at 15:49 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > commit ca5358ef75fc69fee5322a38a340f5739d997c10 upstream.
> >
> > ... by not hitting rename_retry for reasons other than rename having
> > happened. In other words, do _not_ restart when finding that
> > between unlocking the child and locking the parent the former got
> > into __dentry_kill(). Skip the killed siblings instead...
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > [hujianyang: Backported to 3.10 refer to the work of Ben Hutchings in 3.2:
> > - As we only have try_to_ascend() and not d_walk(), apply this
> > change to all callers of try_to_ascend()
> > - Adjust context to make __dentry_kill() apply to d_kill()]
> > Signed-off-by: hujianyang <hujianyang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This is broken; you need to fold in commit 20defcec264c from 3.2.y
> ("dcache: Fix locking bugs in backported "deal with deadlock in
> d_walk()"").
Thanks for letting me know, now applied.
greg k-h
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