deal with deadlock in d_walk()
commit ca5358ef upstream. ... by not hitting rename_retry for reasons other than rename having happened. In other words, do _not_ restart when finding that between unlocking the child and locking the parent the former got into __dentry_kill(). Skip the killed siblings instead... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> [ kamal: backport to 3.13-stable: __dentry_kill() change applied to d_kill() ] Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
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