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Commit a8b00268 authored by Al Viro's avatar Al Viro
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rename(): avoid a deadlock in the case of parents having no common ancestor



... and fix the directory locking documentation and proof of correctness.
Holding ->s_vfs_rename_mutex *almost* prevents ->d_parent changes; the
case where we really don't want it is splicing the root of disconnected
tree to somewhere.

In other words, ->s_vfs_rename_mutex is sufficient to stabilize "X is an
ancestor of Y" only if X and Y are already in the same tree.  Otherwise
it can go from false to true, and one can construct a deadlock on that.

Make lock_two_directories() report an error in such case and update the
callers of lock_rename()/lock_rename_child() to handle such errors.

And yes, such conditions are not impossible to create ;-/

Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
parent dbd4540d
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