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    nfsd: allow fh_want_write to be called twice · 0b8f6262
    J. Bruce Fields authored
    A fuzzer recently triggered lockdep warnings about potential sb_writers
    deadlocks caused by fh_want_write().
    
    Looks like we aren't careful to pair each fh_want_write() with an
    fh_drop_write().
    
    It's not normally a problem since fh_put() will call fh_drop_write() for
    us.  And was OK for NFSv3 where we'd do one operation that might call
    fh_want_write(), and then put the filehandle.
    
    But an NFSv4 protocol fuzzer can do weird things like call unlink twice
    in a compound, and then we get into trouble.
    
    I'm a little worried about this approach of just leaving everything to
    fh_put().  But I think there are probably a lot of
    fh_want_write()/fh_drop_write() imbalances so for now I think we need it
    to be more forgiving.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
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