deal with deadlock in d_walk()
authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Sun, 26 Oct 2014 23:31:10 +0000 (19:31 -0400)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Thu, 1 Jan 2015 01:27:51 +0000 (01:27 +0000)
commit ca5358ef75fc69fee5322a38a340f5739d997c10 upstream.

... by not hitting rename_retry for reasons other than rename having
happened.  In other words, do _not_ restart when finding that
between unlocking the child and locking the parent the former got
into __dentry_kill().  Skip the killed siblings instead...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - As we only have try_to_ascend() and not d_walk(), apply this
   change to all callers of try_to_ascend()
 - Adjust context to make __dentry_kill() apply to d_kill()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
fs/dcache.c

diff --cc fs/dcache.c
Simple merge