Greg, Jiri,

I checked Jari's explanation below and found that v3.14.77 and v3.12.62
are missing the same fix as 3.10. In fact Al's original commit 3d56c25
("fix d_walk()/non-delayed __d_free() race") used to mention to check 
this __d_materialise_dentry() function in the Cc: stable line, but this
got lost during the backports.

Normally all of our 3 kernels need to apply the following patch that
Ben correctly put in 3.16 and 3.2. I'm fixing the backport in 3.10.103
right now.

Cheers,
Willy

diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 2a808fb..2d0b9d2 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c

@@ -2401,6 +2401,7 @@ static void __d_materialise_dentry(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *anon)
 	switch_names(dentry, anon);
 	swap(dentry->d_name.hash, anon->d_name.hash);
 
+	dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_RCUACCESS;
 	dentry->d_parent = dentry;
 	list_del_init(&dentry->d_child);
 	anon->d_parent = dparent;

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 04:56:57PM +0300, Jari Ruusu wrote:

This patch for 3.10 branch appears to be missing one important

+       dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_RCUACCESS;

in fs/dcache.c __d_materialise_dentry() function. When Ben Hutchings
backported Al Viro's original fix to stable branches that he maintains,
he added that one additional line to both 3.2 and 3.16 branches. Please
consider including that additional one line fix for 3.10 stable branch
also.


Ben Hutchings said this on his 3.2.82-rc1 patch:
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Adjust context
 - Also set the flag in __d_materialise_dentry())]

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=147117565612275&w=2


Ben Hutchings said this on his 3.16.37-rc1 patch:
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
 - Adjust context
 - Also set the flag in __d_materialise_dentry())]

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=147117433412006&w=2


Also mentioned by Sasha Levin on 3.18 and 4.1 commits:
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.2+ (and watch out for __d_materialise_dentry())

http://marc.info/?l=linux-stable-commits&m=146648034410827&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-stable-commits&m=146647471009771&w=2

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