FAILED: patch "[PATCH] autofs: use dentry flags to block walks during expire" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

>From 7cbdb4a286a60c5d519cb9223fe2134d26870d39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 14:44:12 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] autofs: use dentry flags to block walks during expire

Somewhere along the way the autofs expire operation has changed to hold
a spin lock over expired dentry selection.  The autofs indirect mount
expired dentry selection is complicated and quite lengthy so it isn't
appropriate to hold a spin lock over the operation.

Commit 47be61845c77 ("fs/dcache.c: avoid soft-lockup in dput()") added a
might_sleep() to dput() causing a WARN_ONCE() about this usage to be
issued.

But the spin lock doesn't need to be held over this check, the autofs
dentry info.  flags are enough to block walks into dentrys during the
expire.

I've left the direct mount expire as it is (for now) because it is much
simpler and quicker than the indirect mount expire and adding spin lock
release and re-aquires would do nothing more than add overhead.

Fixes: 47be61845c77 ("fs/dcache.c: avoid soft-lockup in dput()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160912014017.1773.73060.stgit@pluto.themaw.net
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Tested-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/fs/autofs4/expire.c b/fs/autofs4/expire.c
index b493909e7492..d8e6d421c27f 100644
--- a/fs/autofs4/expire.c
+++ b/fs/autofs4/expire.c
@@ -417,6 +417,7 @@ static struct dentry *should_expire(struct dentry *dentry,
 	}
 	return NULL;
 }
+
 /*
  * Find an eligible tree to time-out
  * A tree is eligible if :-
@@ -432,6 +433,7 @@ struct dentry *autofs4_expire_indirect(struct super_block *sb,
 	struct dentry *root = sb->s_root;
 	struct dentry *dentry;
 	struct dentry *expired;
+	struct dentry *found;
 	struct autofs_info *ino;
 
 	if (!root)
@@ -442,31 +444,46 @@ struct dentry *autofs4_expire_indirect(struct super_block *sb,
 
 	dentry = NULL;
 	while ((dentry = get_next_positive_subdir(dentry, root))) {
+		int flags = how;
+
 		spin_lock(&sbi->fs_lock);
 		ino = autofs4_dentry_ino(dentry);
-		if (ino->flags & AUTOFS_INF_WANT_EXPIRE)
-			expired = NULL;
-		else
-			expired = should_expire(dentry, mnt, timeout, how);
-		if (!expired) {
+		if (ino->flags & AUTOFS_INF_WANT_EXPIRE) {
 			spin_unlock(&sbi->fs_lock);
 			continue;
 		}
+		spin_unlock(&sbi->fs_lock);
+
+		expired = should_expire(dentry, mnt, timeout, flags);
+		if (!expired)
+			continue;
+
+		spin_lock(&sbi->fs_lock);
 		ino = autofs4_dentry_ino(expired);
 		ino->flags |= AUTOFS_INF_WANT_EXPIRE;
 		spin_unlock(&sbi->fs_lock);
 		synchronize_rcu();
-		spin_lock(&sbi->fs_lock);
-		if (should_expire(expired, mnt, timeout, how)) {
-			if (expired != dentry)
-				dput(dentry);
-			goto found;
-		}
 
+		/* Make sure a reference is not taken on found if
+		 * things have changed.
+		 */
+		flags &= ~AUTOFS_EXP_LEAVES;
+		found = should_expire(expired, mnt, timeout, how);
+		if (!found || found != expired)
+			/* Something has changed, continue */
+			goto next;
+
+		if (expired != dentry)
+			dput(dentry);
+
+		spin_lock(&sbi->fs_lock);
+		goto found;
+next:
+		spin_lock(&sbi->fs_lock);
 		ino->flags &= ~AUTOFS_INF_WANT_EXPIRE;
+		spin_unlock(&sbi->fs_lock);
 		if (expired != dentry)
 			dput(expired);
-		spin_unlock(&sbi->fs_lock);
 	}
 	return NULL;
 
@@ -483,6 +500,7 @@ int autofs4_expire_wait(struct dentry *dentry, int rcu_walk)
 	struct autofs_sb_info *sbi = autofs4_sbi(dentry->d_sb);
 	struct autofs_info *ino = autofs4_dentry_ino(dentry);
 	int status;
+	int state;
 
 	/* Block on any pending expire */
 	if (!(ino->flags & AUTOFS_INF_WANT_EXPIRE))
@@ -490,8 +508,19 @@ int autofs4_expire_wait(struct dentry *dentry, int rcu_walk)
 	if (rcu_walk)
 		return -ECHILD;
 
+retry:
 	spin_lock(&sbi->fs_lock);
-	if (ino->flags & AUTOFS_INF_EXPIRING) {
+	state = ino->flags & (AUTOFS_INF_WANT_EXPIRE | AUTOFS_INF_EXPIRING);
+	if (state == AUTOFS_INF_WANT_EXPIRE) {
+		spin_unlock(&sbi->fs_lock);
+		/*
+		 * Possibly being selected for expire, wait until
+		 * it's selected or not.
+		 */
+		schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(HZ/10);
+		goto retry;
+	}
+	if (state & AUTOFS_INF_EXPIRING) {
 		spin_unlock(&sbi->fs_lock);
 
 		pr_debug("waiting for expire %p name=%pd\n", dentry, dentry);