FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ovl: use I_MUTEX_PARENT when locking parent in" failed to apply to 6.16-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.16-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>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.16.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 5f1c8965e748c150d580a2ea8fbee1bd80d07a24
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2025082114-donator-nursing-1c9c@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.16.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

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

From 5f1c8965e748c150d580a2ea8fbee1bd80d07a24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2025 22:11:28 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] ovl: use I_MUTEX_PARENT when locking parent in
 ovl_create_temp()

ovl_create_temp() treats "workdir" as a parent in which it creates an
object so it should use I_MUTEX_PARENT.

Prior to the commit identified below the lock was taken by the caller
which sometimes used I_MUTEX_PARENT and sometimes used I_MUTEX_NORMAL.
The use of I_MUTEX_NORMAL was incorrect but unfortunately copied into
ovl_create_temp().

Note to backporters: This patch only applies after the last Fixes given
below (post v6.16).  To fix the bug in v6.7 and later the
inode_lock() call in ovl_copy_up_workdir() needs to nest using
I_MUTEX_PARENT.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/67a72070.050a0220.3d72c.0022.GAE@google.com/
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: syzbot+7836a68852a10ec3d790@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Tested-by: syzbot+7836a68852a10ec3d790@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: c63e56a4a652 ("ovl: do not open/llseek lower file with upper sb_writers held")
Fixes: d2c995581c7c ("ovl: Call ovl_create_temp() without lock held.")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
index 70b8687dc45e..dbd63a74df4b 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ struct dentry *ovl_create_temp(struct ovl_fs *ofs, struct dentry *workdir,
 			       struct ovl_cattr *attr)
 {
 	struct dentry *ret;
-	inode_lock(workdir->d_inode);
+	inode_lock_nested(workdir->d_inode, I_MUTEX_PARENT);
 	ret = ovl_create_real(ofs, workdir,
 			      ovl_lookup_temp(ofs, workdir), attr);
 	inode_unlock(workdir->d_inode);