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authorIan Kent <raven@themaw.net>2022-10-18 10:32:49 +0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-10-20 13:54:31 +0200
commit92b57842f43014e6ca81ddf6d5d59e9ddf762e12 (patch)
tree98f87028177b7abd25c8a0cd7866bac87996b0a1 /fs/kernfs
parentaa1d058d48f292aa138e33ad12b7b4d18b5407cd (diff)
kernfs: dont take i_lock on revalidate
In kernfs_dop_revalidate() when the passed in dentry is negative the dentry directory is checked to see if it has changed and if so the negative dentry is discarded so it can refreshed. During this check the dentry inode i_lock is taken to mitigate against a possible concurrent rename. But if it's racing with a rename, becuase the dentry is negative, it can't be the source it must be the target and it must be going to do a d_move() otherwise the rename will return an error. In this case the parent dentry of the target will not change, it will be the same over the d_move(), only the source dentry parent may change so the inode i_lock isn't needed. Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/166606036967.13363.9336408133975631967.stgit@donald.themaw.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/kernfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/kernfs/dir.c24
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/kernfs/dir.c b/fs/kernfs/dir.c
index 3990f3e270cb..6acd9c3d4cff 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/kernfs/dir.c
@@ -1073,20 +1073,30 @@ static int kernfs_dop_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags)
/* If the kernfs parent node has changed discard and
* proceed to ->lookup.
+ *
+ * There's nothing special needed here when getting the
+ * dentry parent, even if a concurrent rename is in
+ * progress. That's because the dentry is negative so
+ * it can only be the target of the rename and it will
+ * be doing a d_move() not a replace. Consequently the
+ * dentry d_parent won't change over the d_move().
+ *
+ * Also kernfs negative dentries transitioning from
+ * negative to positive during revalidate won't happen
+ * because they are invalidated on containing directory
+ * changes and the lookup re-done so that a new positive
+ * dentry can be properly created.
*/
- spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
+ root = kernfs_root_from_sb(dentry->d_sb);
+ down_read(&root->kernfs_rwsem);
parent = kernfs_dentry_node(dentry->d_parent);
if (parent) {
- spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
- root = kernfs_root(parent);
- down_read(&root->kernfs_rwsem);
if (kernfs_dir_changed(parent, dentry)) {
up_read(&root->kernfs_rwsem);
return 0;
}
- up_read(&root->kernfs_rwsem);
- } else
- spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
+ }
+ up_read(&root->kernfs_rwsem);
/* The kernfs parent node hasn't changed, leave the
* dentry negative and return success.