From d1b72cc6d8cb766c802fdc70a5edc2f0ba8a2b57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 15:42:01 +0100 Subject: 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 Tested-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- fs/overlayfs/readdir.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/overlayfs') 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; -- cgit v1.2.3