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Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ecryptfs/inode.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c index a905d5f4f3b0..3c2298721359 100644 --- a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c @@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ static int ecryptfs_i_size_read(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode) static struct dentry *ecryptfs_lookup_interpose(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *lower_dentry) { - struct inode *inode, *lower_inode = d_inode(lower_dentry); + struct inode *inode, *lower_inode; struct ecryptfs_dentry_info *dentry_info; struct vfsmount *lower_mnt; int rc = 0; @@ -339,7 +339,15 @@ static struct dentry *ecryptfs_lookup_interpose(struct dentry *dentry, dentry_info->lower_path.mnt = lower_mnt; dentry_info->lower_path.dentry = lower_dentry; - if (d_really_is_negative(lower_dentry)) { + /* + * negative dentry can go positive under us here - its parent is not + * locked. That's OK and that could happen just as we return from + * ecryptfs_lookup() anyway. Just need to be careful and fetch + * ->d_inode only once - it's not stable here. + */ + lower_inode = READ_ONCE(lower_dentry->d_inode); + + if (!lower_inode) { /* We want to add because we couldn't find in lower */ d_add(dentry, NULL); return NULL; |