[PATCH] is_subdir locking fix
From: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> o The following patch fixes is_subdir() races with d_move. Due to concurrent d_move, in is_subdir() we can end up accessing freed d_parent pointer in case of pre-emptible kernel. To avoid this we can use rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock(). o This also fixes the seqlock uses in is_subdir() as we need to restart the the inner loop with the origianl new_dentry passed to the routine in case of any rename occured while we are traversing d_parent links.
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