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    • Al Viro's avatar
      Nest rename_lock inside vfsmount_lock · 7ea600b5
      Al Viro authored
      ... lest we get livelocks between path_is_under() and d_path() and friends.
      
      The thing is, wrt fairness lglocks are more similar to rwsems than to rwlocks;
      it is possible to have thread B spin on attempt to take lock shared while thread
      A is already holding it shared, if B is on lower-numbered CPU than A and there's
      a thread C spinning on attempt to take the same lock exclusive.
      
      As the result, we need consistent ordering between vfsmount_lock (lglock) and
      rename_lock (seq_lock), even though everything that takes both is going to take
      vfsmount_lock only shared.
      Spotted-by: default avatarBrad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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