NFS: fix two problems in lookup_revalidate in RCU-walk
1/ rcu_dereference isn't correct: that field isn't RCU protected. It could potentially change at any time so ACCESS_ONCE might be justified. changes to ->d_parent are protected by ->d_seq. However that isn't always checked after ->d_revalidate is called, so it is safest to keep the double-check that ->d_parent hasn't changed at the end of these functions. 2/ in nfs4_lookup_revalidate, "->d_parent" was forgotten. So 'parent' was not the parent of 'dentry'. This fails safe is the context is that dentry->d_inode is NULL, and the result of parent->d_inode being NULL is that ECHILD is returned, which is always safe. Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
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