3.2.70-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 2159184ea01e4ae7d15f2017e296d4bc82d5aeb0 upstream. when we find that a child has died while we'd been trying to ascend, we should go into the first live sibling itself, rather than its sibling. Off-by-one in question had been introduced in "deal with deadlock in d_walk()" and the fix needs to be backported to all branches this one has been backported to. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: apply to the 3 copies of this logic we ended up with] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/dcache.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -1016,13 +1016,13 @@ ascend: /* might go back up the wrong parent if we have had a rename */ if (!locked && read_seqretry(&rename_lock, seq)) goto rename_retry; - next = child->d_child.next; - while (unlikely(child->d_flags & DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED)) { + /* go into the first sibling still alive */ + do { + next = child->d_child.next; if (next == &this_parent->d_subdirs) goto ascend; child = list_entry(next, struct dentry, d_child); - next = next->next; - } + } while (unlikely(child->d_flags & DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED)); rcu_read_unlock(); goto resume; } @@ -1142,13 +1142,13 @@ ascend: /* might go back up the wrong parent if we have had a rename */ if (!locked && read_seqretry(&rename_lock, seq)) goto rename_retry; - next = child->d_child.next; - while (unlikely(child->d_flags & DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED)) { + /* go into the first sibling still alive */ + do { + next = child->d_child.next; if (next == &this_parent->d_subdirs) goto ascend; child = list_entry(next, struct dentry, d_child); - next = next->next; - } + } while (unlikely(child->d_flags & DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED)); rcu_read_unlock(); goto resume; } @@ -2938,13 +2938,13 @@ ascend: /* might go back up the wrong parent if we have had a rename */ if (!locked && read_seqretry(&rename_lock, seq)) goto rename_retry; - next = child->d_child.next; - while (unlikely(child->d_flags & DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED)) { + /* go into the first sibling still alive */ + do { + next = child->d_child.next; if (next == &this_parent->d_subdirs) goto ascend; child = list_entry(next, struct dentry, d_child); - next = next->next; - } + } while (unlikely(child->d_flags & DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED)); rcu_read_unlock(); goto resume; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html