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From: NeilBrown <neilb@ownmail.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
	Trond Myklebust <trondmy@kernel.org>,
	Anna Schumaker <anna@kernel.org>,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
	Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>, Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel
Subject: [PATCH v2 09/19] ovl: stop using lookup_one() in iterate_shared() handling.
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:29:42 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260427033527.773006-10-neilb@ownmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260427033527.773006-1-neilb@ownmail.net>

From: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>

lookup_one() is expected to be removed as it does not fit well with
proposed changes to directory locking.
Specifically d_alloc_parallel() will be ordered outside of i_rwsem
and as iterate_shared() is called with i_rwsem held it is not safe
to call d_alloc_parallel().

We can instead call d_alloc_noblock() and then call the ->lookup, but
that can fail if there is a lookup attempt concurrent with the
readdir().

ovl cannot afford for the lookup to fail as that could produce incorrect
results, and it cannot safely drop i_rwsem temporarily and that could
introduce races with handling of the directory cache.

Instead we rely on the fact that ovl_iterate() has an exclusive lock on
the directory, so any concurrent lookup will wait for the ovl_iterate()
call to complete.  We allocate a separate dentry and if the lookup is
successful, it is hashed with the result.

When the concurrent lookup gets i_rwsem it mustn't do its own lookup -
it must use the existing dentry.  This is found, if it exists, using
try_lookup_noperm().

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
---
 fs/overlayfs/namei.c   | 12 ++++++++++++
 fs/overlayfs/readdir.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/namei.c b/fs/overlayfs/namei.c
index ca899fdfaafd..69032eb2b1e2 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/namei.c
@@ -1385,6 +1385,7 @@ struct dentry *ovl_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
 	struct ovl_fs *ofs = OVL_FS(dentry->d_sb);
 	struct ovl_entry *poe = OVL_E(dentry->d_parent);
 	bool check_redirect = (ovl_redirect_follow(ofs) || ofs->numdatalayer);
+	struct dentry *alias;
 	int err;
 	struct ovl_lookup_ctx ctx = {
 		.dentry = dentry,
@@ -1399,6 +1400,17 @@ struct dentry *ovl_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
 	if (dentry->d_name.len > ofs->namelen)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
 
+	/*
+	 * The existance of this in-lookup dentry might have forced
+	 * readdir to do the lookup with a new dentry.  If so we must
+	 * return that one.
+	 */
+	alias = try_lookup_noperm(&QSTR_LEN(dentry->d_name.name,
+					    dentry->d_name.len),
+				  dentry->d_parent);
+	if (alias && !IS_ERR(alias))
+		return alias;
+
 	with_ovl_creds(dentry->d_sb)
 		err = ovl_lookup_layers(&ctx, &d);
 
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c b/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c
index 1dcc75b3a90f..e03b32491941 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c
@@ -574,8 +574,28 @@ static int ovl_cache_update(const struct path *path, struct ovl_cache_entry *p,
 		}
 	}
 	/* This checks also for xwhiteouts */
-	this = lookup_one(mnt_idmap(path->mnt), &QSTR_LEN(p->name, p->len), dir);
-	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(this) || !this->d_inode) {
+	this = d_alloc_noblock(dir, &QSTR_LEN(p->name, p->len));
+	if (this == ERR_PTR(-EWOULDBLOCK)) {
+		/*
+		 * Some other thead is looking up this name and will
+		 * block on i_rwsem before it can complete the lookup.
+		 * We will do the lookup in a new dentry and when that
+		 * lookup gets a turn it will find and return this
+		 * dentry.
+		 */
+		this = d_alloc_name(dir, p->name);
+	}
+	if (!IS_ERR(this) && !d_unhashed(this)) {
+		/* Either we got an in-lookup or we made our own unhashed */
+		struct dentry *alias = ovl_lookup(dir->d_inode, this, 0);
+
+		if (alias) {
+			d_lookup_done(this);
+			dput(this);
+			this = alias;
+		}
+	}
+	if (IS_ERR(this) || !this->d_inode) {
 		/* Mark a stale entry */
 		p->is_whiteout = true;
 		if (IS_ERR(this)) {
-- 
2.50.0.107.gf914562f5916.dirty


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-04-27  3:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-27  3:29 [PATCH v2 00/19] Prepare to lift lookup out of exclusive lock for directory ops NeilBrown
2026-04-27  3:29 ` [PATCH v2 01/19] VFS: fix various typos in documentation for start_creating start_removing etc NeilBrown
2026-04-27  3:29 ` [PATCH v2 02/19] VFS: enhance d_splice_alias() to handle in-lookup dentries NeilBrown
2026-04-27  3:29 ` [PATCH v2 03/19] VFS: allow d_alloc_name() to be used with ->d_hash NeilBrown
2026-04-27  3:29 ` [PATCH v2 04/19] VFS: use wait_var_event for waiting in d_alloc_parallel() NeilBrown
2026-04-27  3:29 ` [PATCH v2 05/19] VFS: introduce d_alloc_noblock() NeilBrown
2026-04-27  3:29 ` [PATCH v2 06/19] VFS: add d_duplicate() NeilBrown
2026-04-27  3:29 ` [PATCH v2 07/19] VFS: Add LOOKUP_SHARED flag NeilBrown
2026-04-27  3:29 ` [PATCH v2 08/19] VFS/xfs/ntfs: drop parent lock across d_alloc_parallel() in d_add_ci() NeilBrown
2026-04-27  3:29 ` NeilBrown [this message]
2026-04-27  3:29 ` [PATCH v2 10/19] VFS/ovl: add d_alloc_noblock_return() NeilBrown
2026-04-27  3:29 ` [PATCH v2 11/19] efivarfs: use d_alloc_name() NeilBrown
2026-04-27  3:29 ` [PATCH v2 12/19] shmem: use d_duplicate() NeilBrown
2026-04-27  3:29 ` [PATCH v2 13/19] nfs: remove d_drop()/d_alloc_parallel() from nfs_atomic_open() NeilBrown
2026-04-27  3:29 ` [PATCH v2 14/19] nfs: use d_splice_alias() in nfs_link() NeilBrown
2026-04-27  3:29 ` [PATCH v2 15/19] nfs: don't d_drop() before d_splice_alias() NeilBrown
2026-04-27  3:29 ` [PATCH v2 16/19] nfs: don't d_drop() before d_splice_alias() in atomic_create NeilBrown
2026-04-27  3:29 ` [PATCH v2 17/19] nfs: Use d_alloc_noblock() in nfs_prime_dcache() NeilBrown
2026-04-27  3:29 ` [PATCH v2 18/19] nfs: use d_alloc_noblock() in silly-rename NeilBrown
2026-04-27  3:29 ` [PATCH v2 19/19] nfs: use d_duplicate() NeilBrown
2026-04-27  3:47 ` [PATCH v2 00/19] Prepare to lift lookup out of exclusive lock for directory ops Al Viro
2026-04-27  8:41 ` [syzbot ci] " syzbot ci

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