From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 02:56:05 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: overlayfs: don't hold ->i_mutex over opening the real directory
X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3d268c9b136f51385f9d041f3f2424501b257388;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2FG12%2Fandroid_kernel_amlogic_linux-4.9.git

overlayfs: don't hold ->i_mutex over opening the real directory

just use it to serialize the assignment

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c b/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c
index c6787f84ece9..b7d9fb098840 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c
@@ -458,20 +458,27 @@ static int ovl_dir_fsync(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end,
 	if (!od->is_upper && ovl_path_type(dentry) == OVL_PATH_MERGE) {
 		struct inode *inode = file_inode(file);
 
-		mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
 		realfile = od->upperfile;
 		if (!realfile) {
 			struct path upperpath;
 
 			ovl_path_upper(dentry, &upperpath);
 			realfile = ovl_path_open(&upperpath, O_RDONLY);
-			if (IS_ERR(realfile)) {
-				mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
-				return PTR_ERR(realfile);
+			mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
+			if (!od->upperfile) {
+				if (IS_ERR(realfile)) {
+					mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
+					return PTR_ERR(realfile);
+				}
+				od->upperfile = realfile;
+			} else {
+				/* somebody has beaten us to it */
+				if (!IS_ERR(realfile))
+					fput(realfile);
+				realfile = od->upperfile;
 			}
-			od->upperfile = realfile;
+			mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
 		}
-		mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
 	}
 
 	return vfs_fsync_range(realfile, start, end, datasync);