deal with deadlock in d_walk()
commit ca5358ef 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> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> [hujianyang: Backported to 3.14 refer to the work of Ben Hutchings in 3.2: - Adjust context to make __dentry_kill() apply to d_kill()] Signed-off-by: hujianyang <hujianyang@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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