Miklos Szeredi observes that during truncation of shmem page directories,
info->lock is released to improve latency (after lowering i_size and
next_index to exclude races); but this is quite wrong for holepunching,
which receives no such protection from i_size or next_index, and is left
vulnerable to races with shmem_unuse, shmem_getpage and shmem_writepage.

Hold info->lock throughout when holepunching?  No, any user could prevent
rescheduling for far too long.  Instead take info->lock just when needed:
in shmem_free_swp when removing the swap entries, and whenever removing
a directory page from the level above.  But so long as we remove before
scanning, we can safely skip taking the lock at the lower levels, except
at misaligned start and end of the hole.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>