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[ Upstream commit 61647823aa920e395afcce4b57c32afb51456cab ] d_move() will call __d_drop() and then __d_rehash() on the dentry being moved. This creates a small window when the dentry appears to be unhashed. Many tests of d_unhashed() are made under ->d_lock and so are safe from racing with this window, but some aren't. In particular, getcwd() calls d_unlinked() (which calls d_unhashed()) without d_lock protection, so it can race. This races has been seen in practice with lustre, which uses d_move() as part of name lookup. See: https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-9735 It could race with a regular rename(), and result in ENOENT instead of either the 'before' or 'after' name. The race can be demonstrated with a simple program which has two threads, one renaming a directory back and forth while another calls getcwd() within that directory: it should never fail, but does. See: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9455345/ We could fix this race by taking d_lock and rechecking when d_unhashed() reports true. Alternately when can remove the window, which is the approach this patch takes. ___d_drop() is introduce which does *not* clear d_hash.pprev so the dentry still appears to be hashed. __d_drop() calls ___d_drop(), then clears d_hash.pprev. __d_move() now uses ___d_drop() and only clears d_hash.pprev when not rehashing. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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