ovl: drop WARN_ON() dentry is NULL in ovl_encode_fh()
Some code paths cannot guarantee the inode have any dentry alias. So WARN_ON() all !dentry may flood the kernel logs. For example, when an overlayfs inode is watched by inotifywait (1), and someone is trying to read the /proc/$(pidof inotifywait)/fdinfo/INOTIFY_FD, at that time if the dentry has been reclaimed by kernel (such as echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches), there will be a WARN_ON(). The printed call stack would be like: ? show_mark_fhandle+0xf0/0xf0 show_mark_fhandle+0x4a/0xf0 ? show_mark_fhandle+0xf0/0xf0 ? seq_vprintf+0x30/0x50 ? seq_printf+0x53/0x70 ? show_mark_fhandle+0xf0/0xf0 inotify_fdinfo+0x70/0x90 show_fdinfo.isra.4+0x53/0x70 seq_show+0x130/0x170 seq_read+0x153/0x440 vfs_read+0x94/0x150 ksys_read+0x5f/0xe0 do_syscall_64+0x59/0x1e0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 So let's drop WARN_ON() to avoid kernel log flooding. Reported-by: Hongbo Yin <yinhongbo@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Jiachen Zhang <zhangjiachen.jaycee@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Tianci Zhang <zhangtianci.1997@bytedance.com> Fixes: 8ed5eec9 ("ovl: encode pure upper file handles") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.16 Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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