fs: better handle deep ancestor chains in is_subdir()
[ Upstream commit 391b59b0 ] Jan reported that 'cd ..' may take a long time in deep directory hierarchies under a bind-mount. If concurrent renames happen it is possible to livelock in is_subdir() because it will keep retrying. Change is_subdir() from simply retrying over and over to retry once and then acquire the rename lock to handle deep ancestor chains better. The list of alternatives to this approach were less then pleasant. Change the scope of rcu lock to cover the whole walk while at it. A big thanks to Jan and Linus. Both Jan and Linus had proposed effectively the same thing just that one version ended up being slightly more elegant. Reported-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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