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Al Viro committed 3b821409632
lock_parent() needs to recheck if dentry got __dentry_kill'ed under it In case when dentry passed to lock_parent() is protected from freeing only by the fact that it's on a shrink list and trylock of parent fails, we could get hit by __dentry_kill() (and subsequent dentry_kill(parent)) between unlocking dentry and locking presumed parent. We need to recheck that dentry is alive once we lock both it and parent *and* postpone rcu_read_unlock() until after that point. Otherwise we could return a pointer to struct dentry that already is rcu-scheduled for freeing, with ->d_lock held on it; caller's subsequent attempt to unlock it can end up with memory corruption. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.12+, counting backports Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>