much milder d_walk() race
d_walk() relies upon the tree not getting rearranged under it without
rename_lock being touched. And we do grab rename_lock around the
places that change the tree topology. Unfortunately, branch reordering
is just as bad from d_walk() POV and we have two places that do it
without touching rename_lock - one in handling of cursors (for ramfs-style
directories) and another in autofs. autofs one is a separate story; this
commit deals with the cursors.
* mark cursor dentries explicitly at allocation time
* make __dentry_kill() leave ->d_child.next pointing to the next
non-cursor sibling, making sure that it won't be moved around unnoticed
before the parent is relocked on ascend-to-parent path in d_walk().
* make d_walk() skip cursors explicitly; strictly speaking it's
not necessary (all callbacks we pass to d_walk() are no-ops on cursors),
but it makes analysis easier.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h
index b71deee..f57ced5 100644
--- a/fs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/internal.h
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@
extern struct dentry *__d_alloc(struct super_block *, const struct qstr *);
extern int d_set_mounted(struct dentry *dentry);
extern long prune_dcache_sb(struct super_block *sb, struct shrink_control *sc);
+extern struct dentry *d_alloc_cursor(struct dentry *);
/*
* read_write.c