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authorMiklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>2014-10-27 15:42:01 +0100
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2014-10-28 18:32:47 -0400
commitd1b72cc6d8cb766c802fdc70a5edc2f0ba8a2b57 (patch)
tree35e1ed80b8a78b53538d73bd99525d17def9a7f5 /fs/overlayfs
parentc2096537d40f026672c4c6adfcd7247ce5799604 (diff)
overlayfs: fix lockdep misannotation
In an overlay directory that shadows an empty lower directory, say /mnt/a/empty102, do: touch /mnt/a/empty102/x unlink /mnt/a/empty102/x rmdir /mnt/a/empty102 It's actually harmless, but needs another level of nesting between I_MUTEX_CHILD and I_MUTEX_NORMAL. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Tested-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/overlayfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/overlayfs/readdir.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c b/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c
index 3fbf0d306e12..401f0840f5cc 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c
@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ void ovl_cleanup_whiteouts(struct dentry *upper, struct list_head *list)
{
struct ovl_cache_entry *p;
- mutex_lock_nested(&upper->d_inode->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_PARENT);
+ mutex_lock_nested(&upper->d_inode->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_CHILD);
list_for_each_entry(p, list, l_node) {
struct dentry *dentry;