Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] fs: Establish locking order for unrelated directories

[Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 05:24:49PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Thu 01-06-23 15:58:58, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 12:58:24PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > > Currently the locking order of inode locks for directories that are not
> > > in ancestor relationship is not defined because all operations that
> > > needed to lock two directories like this were serialized by
> > > sb->s_vfs_rename_mutex. However some filesystems need to lock two
> > > subdirectories for RENAME_EXCHANGE operations and for this we need the
> > > locking order established even for two tree-unrelated directories.
> > > Provide a helper function lock_two_inodes() that establishes lock
> > > ordering for any two inodes and use it in lock_two_directories().
> > > 
> > > CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> > > ---
> > >  fs/inode.c    | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  fs/internal.h |  2 ++
> > >  fs/namei.c    |  4 ++--
> > >  3 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
> > > index 577799b7855f..4000ab08bbc0 100644
> > > --- a/fs/inode.c
> > > +++ b/fs/inode.c
> > > @@ -1103,6 +1103,48 @@ void discard_new_inode(struct inode *inode)
> > >  }
> > >  EXPORT_SYMBOL(discard_new_inode);
> > >  
> > > +/**
> > > + * lock_two_inodes - lock two inodes (may be regular files but also dirs)
> > > + *
> > > + * Lock any non-NULL argument. The caller must make sure that if he is passing
> > > + * in two directories, one is not ancestor of the other.  Zero, one or two
> > > + * objects may be locked by this function.
> > > + *
> > > + * @inode1: first inode to lock
> > > + * @inode2: second inode to lock
> > > + * @subclass1: inode lock subclass for the first lock obtained
> > > + * @subclass2: inode lock subclass for the second lock obtained
> > > + */
> > > +void lock_two_inodes(struct inode *inode1, struct inode *inode2,
> > > +		     unsigned subclass1, unsigned subclass2)
> > > +{
> > > +	if (!inode1 || !inode2)
> > 
> > I think you forgot the opening bracket...
> > I can just fix this up for you though.
> 
> Oh, yes. Apparently I forgot to rerun git-format-patch after fixing up this
> bit. I'm sorry for that. The patch series has survived full ext4 fstests

No problem at all!