nfs: make nfs_set_verifier() safe for use in RCU pathwalk
nfs_set_verifier() relies upon dentry being pinned; if that's the case, grabbing ->d_lock stabilizes ->d_parent and guarantees that ->d_parent points to a positive dentry. For something we'd run into in RCU mode that is *not* true - dentry might've been through dentry_kill() just as we grabbed ->d_lock, with its parent going through the same just as we get to into nfs_set_verifier_locked(). It might get to detaching inode (and zeroing ->d_inode) before nfs_set_verifier_locked() gets to fetching that; we get an oops as the result. That can happen in nfs{,4} ->d_revalidate(); the call chain in question is nfs_set_verifier_locked() <- nfs_set_verifier() <- nfs_lookup_revalidate_delegated() <- nfs{,4}_do_lookup_revalidate(). We have checked that the parent had been positive, but that's done before we get to nfs_set_verifier() and it's possible for memory pressure to pick our dentry as eviction candidate by that time. If that happens, back-to-back attempts to kill dentry and its parent are quite normal. Sure, in case of eviction we'll fail the ->d_seq check in the caller, but we need to survive until we return there... Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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