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    lock_parent: don't step on stale ->d_parent of all-but-freed one · c2338f2d
    Al Viro authored
    
    
    Dentry that had been through (or into) __dentry_kill() might be seen
    by shrink_dentry_list(); that's normal, it'll be taken off the shrink
    list and freed if __dentry_kill() has already finished.  The problem
    is, its ->d_parent might be pointing to already freed dentry, so
    lock_parent() needs to be careful.
    
    We need to check that dentry hasn't already gone into __dentry_kill()
    *and* grab rcu_read_lock() before dropping ->d_lock - the latter makes
    sure that whatever we see in ->d_parent after dropping ->d_lock it
    won't be freed until we drop rcu_read_lock().
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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