change the locking order for namespace_sem
Have it nested inside ->i_mutex. Instead of using follow_down()
under namespace_sem, followed by grabbing i_mutex and checking that
mountpoint to be is not dead, do the following:
grab i_mutex
check that it's not dead
grab namespace_sem
see if anything is mounted there
if not, we've won
otherwise
drop locks
put_path on what we had
replace with what's mounted
retry everything with new mountpoint to be
New helper (lock_mount()) does that. do_add_mount(), do_move_mount(),
do_loopback() and pivot_root() switched to it; in case of the last
two that eliminates a race we used to have - original code didn't
do follow_down().
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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