On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 09:40:17 +0800 Ian Kent <ra...@themaw.net> wrote:
> Somewhere along the way the autofs expire operation has changed to
> hold a spin lock over expired dentry selection. The autofs indirect
> mount expired dentry selection is complicated and quite lengthy so
> it isn't appropriate to hold a spin lock over the operation.
>
> Commit 47be6184 added a might_sleep() to dput() causing a BUG()
> about this usage to be issued.
It's a WARN_ONCE(), not a BUG()?
> But the spin lock doesn't need to be held over this check, the
> autofs dentry info. flags are enough to block walks into dentrys
> during the expire.
>
> I've left the direct mount expire as it is (for now) becuase it
> is much simpler and quicker than the indirect mount expire and
> adding spin lock release and re-aquires would do nothing more
> than add overhead.
>
> Fixes: 47be61845c77 ("fs/dcache.c: avoid soft-lockup in dput()")
> Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <ra...@themaw.net>
> Cc: Takashi Iwai <ti...@suse.de>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: NeilBrown <ne...@suse.com>
47be61845c77 is cc:stable, so this should be likewise.
I've made those two changes to my copy of this changelog.
