make sure that __dentry_kill() always invalidates d_seq, unhashed or not
commit 4c0d7cd5 upstream. RCU pathwalk relies upon the assumption that anything that changes ->d_inode of a dentry will invalidate its ->d_seq. That's almost true - the one exception is that the final dput() of already unhashed dentry does *not* touch ->d_seq at all. Unhashing does, though, so for anything we'd found by RCU dcache lookup we are fine. Unfortunately, we can *start* with an unhashed dentry or jump into it. We could try and be careful in the (few) places where that could happen. Or we could just make the final dput() invalidate the damn thing, unhashed or not. The latter is much simpler and easier to backport, so let's do it that way. Reported-by: "Dae R. Jeong" <threeearcat@gmail.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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