[v3,13/21] Call retain_dentry() with refcount 0

Commit Message

Al Viro Nov. 24, 2023, 6:04 a.m. UTC

Instead of bumping it from 0 to 1, calling retain_dentry(), then
decrementing it back to 0 (with ->d_lock held all the way through),
just leave refcount at 0 through all of that.

It will have a visible effect for ->d_delete() - now it can be
called with refcount 0 instead of 1 and it can no longer play
silly buggers with dropping/regaining ->d_lock.  Not that any
in-tree instances tried to (it's pretty hard to get right).

Any out-of-tree ones will have to adjust (assuming they need any
changes).

Note that we do not need to extend rcu-critical area here - we have
verified that refcount is non-negative after having grabbed ->d_lock,
so nobody will be able to free dentry until they get into __dentry_kill(),
which won't happen until they manage to grab ->d_lock.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[e-mail]>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst |  8 ++++++++
 fs/dcache.c                           | 10 ++--------
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
index 331405f4b29f..3714efcb6f65 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
@@ -1070,3 +1070,11 @@  The list of children anchored in parent dentry got turned into hlist now.
 Field names got changed (->d_children/->d_sib instead of ->d_subdirs/->d_child
 for anchor/entries resp.), so any affected places will be immediately caught
 by compiler.
+
+---
+
+**mandatory**
+
+	->d_delete() instances are now called for dentries with ->d_lock held
+and refcount equal to 0.  They are not permitted to drop/regain ->d_lock.
+None of in-tree instances did anything of that sort.  Make sure yours do not...
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 80992e49561c..8ce0fe70f303 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -888,15 +888,14 @@  void dput(struct dentry *dentry)
 		}
 
 		/* Slow case: now with the dentry lock held */
-		dentry->d_lockref.count = 1;
 		rcu_read_unlock();
 
 		if (likely(retain_dentry(dentry))) {
-			dentry->d_lockref.count--;
 			spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
 			return;
 		}
 
+		dentry->d_lockref.count = 1;
 		dentry = dentry_kill(dentry);
 	}
 }
@@ -921,13 +920,8 @@  void dput_to_list(struct dentry *dentry, struct list_head *list)
 		return;
 	}
 	rcu_read_unlock();
-	dentry->d_lockref.count = 1;
-	if (!retain_dentry(dentry)) {
-		--dentry->d_lockref.count;
+	if (!retain_dentry(dentry))
 		to_shrink_list(dentry, list);
-	} else {
-		--dentry->d_lockref.count;
-	}
 	spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
 }