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From: NeilBrown <neilb@ownmail.net>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
	Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>, Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
	Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
	Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>,
	Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>,
	Hyunchul Lee <hyc.lee@gmail.com>,
	Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, fuse-devel@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-um@lists.infradead.org, codalist@coda.cs.cmu.edu,
	coda@cs.cmu.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org, ntfs@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/7] coda: don't d_drop() early.
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:36:03 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260929034158.1455429-4-neilb@ownmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260929034158.1455429-1-neilb@ownmail.net>

From: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>

Proposed locking changes will mean that calling d_drop() could
effectively unlock the name allowing a parallel lookup to proceed.
For this reason it could only be called *after* the attempt to create a
symlink (in this case) has completed (whether successfully or not).

So move the d_drop() to after the venus_symlink() call.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
---
 fs/coda/dir.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/coda/dir.c b/fs/coda/dir.c
index 67148edfadee..bcbc9d058303 100644
--- a/fs/coda/dir.c
+++ b/fs/coda/dir.c
@@ -249,13 +249,13 @@ static int coda_symlink(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
 	if (symlen > CODA_MAXPATHLEN)
 		return -ENAMETOOLONG;
 
+	error = venus_symlink(dir_inode->i_sb, coda_i2f(dir_inode), name, len,
+			      symname, symlen);
 	/*
-	 * This entry is now negative. Since we do not create
+	 * This entry is still negative. Since we did not create
 	 * an inode for the entry we have to drop it.
 	 */
 	d_drop(de);
-	error = venus_symlink(dir_inode->i_sb, coda_i2f(dir_inode), name, len,
-			      symname, symlen);
 
 	/* mtime is no good anymore */
 	if (!error)
-- 
2.50.0.107.gf914562f5916.dirty


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-29  3:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-29  3:36 [PATCH 0/7] multiple-filesystems: prepare for changes to VFS locking NeilBrown
2026-09-29  3:36 ` [PATCH 1/7] VFS/xfs/ntfs: drop parent lock across d_alloc_parallel() in d_add_ci() NeilBrown
2026-09-29  3:36 ` [PATCH 2/7] shmem: use d_duplicate() NeilBrown
2026-09-29  3:36 ` NeilBrown [this message]
2026-09-29  3:36 ` [PATCH 4/7] configfs: remove d_add() calls before configfs_attach_group() NeilBrown
2026-09-29  5:07   ` Al Viro
2026-09-29  3:36 ` [PATCH 5/7] hostfs: don't d_drop() before d_splice_alias() in hostfs_mkdir() NeilBrown
2026-09-29  3:36 ` [PATCH 6/7] procfs: drop parent lock for d_alloc_parallel() in iterate_shared() NeilBrown
2026-09-29  3:36 ` [PATCH 7/7] ovl: stop using lookup_one() in ovl_iterate() NeilBrown
2026-09-30 13:35   ` Amir Goldstein
2026-09-30 10:22 ` [syzbot ci] Re: multiple-filesystems: prepare for changes to VFS locking syzbot ci

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