vfs: dcache: use DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED instead of DCACHE_DISCONNECTED in d_kill()
IBM reported a soft lockup after applying the fix for the rename_lock
deadlock. Commit c83ce989cb5f ("VFS: Fix the nfs sillyrename regression
in kernel 2.6.38") was found to be the culprit.
The nfs sillyrename fix used DCACHE_DISCONNECTED to indicate that the
dentry was killed. This flag can be set on non-killed dentries too,
which results in infinite retries when trying to traverse the dentry
tree.
This patch introduces a separate flag: DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED, which is
only set in d_kill() and makes try_to_ascend() test only this flag.
IBM reported successful test results with this patch.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h
index caa34e5..5920079 100644
--- a/include/linux/dcache.h
+++ b/include/linux/dcache.h
@@ -206,6 +206,8 @@
#define DCACHE_MANAGED_DENTRY \
(DCACHE_MOUNTED|DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT|DCACHE_MANAGE_TRANSIT)
+#define DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED 0x100000
+
extern seqlock_t rename_lock;
static inline int dname_external(struct dentry *dentry)
