__dentry_kill(): get consistent rules for victim's refcount
authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Sun, 29 Oct 2023 22:38:27 +0000 (18:38 -0400)
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Sat, 25 Nov 2023 07:33:42 +0000 (02:33 -0500)
commitee0c82503dcd0d14cc1ad53da18d32a04f612c4c
tree2d49579d0132aa562488be0fceffc940a3dcaf15
parente9d130d05077e71b1224ad96e419f5f5512b8574
__dentry_kill(): get consistent rules for victim's refcount

Currently we call it with refcount equal to 1 when called from
dentry_kill(); all other callers have it equal to 0.

Make it always be called with zero refcount; on this step we
just decrement it before the calls in dentry_kill().  That is
safe, since all places that care about the value of refcount
either do that under ->d_lock or hold a reference to dentry
in question.  Either is sufficient to prevent observing a
dentry immediately prior to __dentry_kill() getting called
from dentry_kill().

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
fs/dcache.c