[ 01/33] vfs: dcache: fix deadlock in tree traversal

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>

commit 8110e16d42d587997bcaee0c864179e6d93603fe upstream.

IBM reported a deadlock in select_parent().  This was found to be caused
by taking rename_lock when already locked when restarting the tree
traversal.

There are two cases when the traversal needs to be restarted:

 1) concurrent d_move(); this can only happen when not already locked,
    since taking rename_lock protects against concurrent d_move().

 2) racing with final d_put() on child just at the moment of ascending
    to parent; rename_lock doesn't protect against this rare race, so it
    can happen when already locked.

Because of case 2, we need to be able to handle restarting the traversal
when rename_lock is already held.  This patch fixes all three callers of
try_to_ascend().

IBM reported that the deadlock is gone with this patch.

[ I rewrote the patch to be smaller and just do the "goto again" if the
  lock was already held, but credit goes to Miklos for the real work.
   - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/dcache.c |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -1101,6 +1101,8 @@ positive:
 	return 1;
 
 rename_retry:
+	if (locked)
+		goto again;
 	locked = 1;
 	write_seqlock(&rename_lock);
 	goto again;
@@ -1203,6 +1205,8 @@ out:
 rename_retry:
 	if (found)
 		return found;
+	if (locked)
+		goto again;
 	locked = 1;
 	write_seqlock(&rename_lock);
 	goto again;
@@ -2990,6 +2994,8 @@ resume:
 	return;
 
 rename_retry:
+	if (locked)
+		goto again;
 	locked = 1;
 	write_seqlock(&rename_lock);
 	goto again;