On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 08:09:27PM +0800, Liangyan wrote:

> +++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
> @@ -973,6 +973,7 @@ static char *ovl_get_redirect(struct dentry *dentry, bool 
> abs_redirect)
>       for (d = dget(dentry); !IS_ROOT(d);) {
>               const char *name;
>               int thislen;
> +             struct dentry *parent = NULL;
>  
>               spin_lock(&d->d_lock);
>               name = ovl_dentry_get_redirect(d);
> @@ -992,7 +993,22 @@ static char *ovl_get_redirect(struct dentry *dentry, 
> bool abs_redirect)
>  
>               buflen -= thislen;
>               memcpy(&buf[buflen], name, thislen);
> -             tmp = dget_dlock(d->d_parent);
> +             parent = d->d_parent;
> +             if (unlikely(!spin_trylock(&parent->d_lock))) {
> +                     rcu_read_lock();
> +                     spin_unlock(&d->d_lock);
> +again:
> +                     parent = READ_ONCE(d->d_parent);
> +                     spin_lock(&parent->d_lock);
> +                     if (unlikely(parent != d->d_parent)) {
> +                             spin_unlock(&parent->d_lock);
> +                             goto again;
> +                     }
> +                     rcu_read_unlock();
> +                     spin_lock_nested(&d->d_lock, DENTRY_D_LOCK_NESTED);
> +             }
> +             tmp = dget_dlock(parent);
> +             spin_unlock(&parent->d_lock);
>               spin_unlock(&d->d_lock);

Yecchhhh....  What's wrong with just doing
                spin_unlock(&d->d_lock);
                parent = dget_parent(d);
                dput(d);
                d = parent;
instead of that?

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