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<title>fsnotify: fix ignore mask logic in send_to_group()</title>
<updated>2018-07-03T09:18:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amir Goldstein</name>
<email>amir73il@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2018-04-05T13:18:03+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 92183a42898dc400b89da35685d1814ac6acd3d8 ]

The ignore mask logic in send_to_group() does not match the logic
in fanotify_should_send_event(). In the latter, a vfsmount mark ignore
mask precedes an inode mark mask and in the former, it does not.

That difference may cause events to be sent to fanotify backend for no
reason. Fix the logic in send_to_group() to match that of
fanotify_should_send_event().

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 92183a42898dc400b89da35685d1814ac6acd3d8 ]

The ignore mask logic in send_to_group() does not match the logic
in fanotify_should_send_event(). In the latter, a vfsmount mark ignore
mask precedes an inode mark mask and in the former, it does not.

That difference may cause events to be sent to fanotify backend for no
reason. Fix the logic in send_to_group() to match that of
fanotify_should_send_event().

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fanotify: fix logic of events on child</title>
<updated>2018-04-24T07:29:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amir Goldstein</name>
<email>amir73il@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-04T20:42:18+00:00</published>
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commit 54a307ba8d3cd00a3902337ffaae28f436eeb1a4 upstream.

When event on child inodes are sent to the parent inode mark and
parent inode mark was not marked with FAN_EVENT_ON_CHILD, the event
will not be delivered to the listener process. However, if the same
process also has a mount mark, the event to the parent inode will be
delivered regadless of the mount mark mask.

This behavior is incorrect in the case where the mount mark mask does
not contain the specific event type. For example, the process adds
a mark on a directory with mask FAN_MODIFY (without FAN_EVENT_ON_CHILD)
and a mount mark with mask FAN_CLOSE_NOWRITE (without FAN_ONDIR).

A modify event on a file inside that directory (and inside that mount)
should not create a FAN_MODIFY event, because neither of the marks
requested to get that event on the file.

Fixes: 1968f5eed54c ("fanotify: use both marks when possible")
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
[natechancellor: Fix small conflict due to lack of 3cd5eca8d7a2f]
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 54a307ba8d3cd00a3902337ffaae28f436eeb1a4 upstream.

When event on child inodes are sent to the parent inode mark and
parent inode mark was not marked with FAN_EVENT_ON_CHILD, the event
will not be delivered to the listener process. However, if the same
process also has a mount mark, the event to the parent inode will be
delivered regadless of the mount mark mask.

This behavior is incorrect in the case where the mount mark mask does
not contain the specific event type. For example, the process adds
a mark on a directory with mask FAN_MODIFY (without FAN_EVENT_ON_CHILD)
and a mount mark with mask FAN_CLOSE_NOWRITE (without FAN_ONDIR).

A modify event on a file inside that directory (and inside that mount)
should not create a FAN_MODIFY event, because neither of the marks
requested to get that event on the file.

Fixes: 1968f5eed54c ("fanotify: use both marks when possible")
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
[natechancellor: Fix small conflict due to lack of 3cd5eca8d7a2f]
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dentry name snapshots</title>
<updated>2017-08-11T16:30:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-07T18:51:19+00:00</published>
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commit 49d31c2f389acfe83417083e1208422b4091cd9e upstream.

take_dentry_name_snapshot() takes a safe snapshot of dentry name;
if the name is a short one, it gets copied into caller-supplied
structure, otherwise an extra reference to external name is grabbed
(those are never modified).  In either case the pointer to stable
string is stored into the same structure.

dentry must be held by the caller of take_dentry_name_snapshot(),
but may be freely dropped afterwards - the snapshot will stay
until destroyed by release_dentry_name_snapshot().

Intended use:
	struct name_snapshot s;

	take_dentry_name_snapshot(&amp;s, dentry);
	...
	access s.name
	...
	release_dentry_name_snapshot(&amp;s);

Replaces fsnotify_oldname_...(), gets used in fsnotify to obtain the name
to pass down with event.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 49d31c2f389acfe83417083e1208422b4091cd9e upstream.

take_dentry_name_snapshot() takes a safe snapshot of dentry name;
if the name is a short one, it gets copied into caller-supplied
structure, otherwise an extra reference to external name is grabbed
(those are never modified).  In either case the pointer to stable
string is stored into the same structure.

dentry must be held by the caller of take_dentry_name_snapshot(),
but may be freely dropped afterwards - the snapshot will stay
until destroyed by release_dentry_name_snapshot().

Intended use:
	struct name_snapshot s;

	take_dentry_name_snapshot(&amp;s, dentry);
	...
	access s.name
	...
	release_dentry_name_snapshot(&amp;s);

Replaces fsnotify_oldname_...(), gets used in fsnotify to obtain the name
to pass down with event.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>fanotify: fix list corruption in fanotify_get_response()</title>
<updated>2016-10-06T02:40:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-19T21:44:30+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 96d41019e3ac55f6f0115b0ce97e4f24a3d636d2 ]

fanotify_get_response() calls fsnotify_remove_event() when it finds that
group is being released from fanotify_release() (bypass_perm is set).

However the event it removes need not be only in the group's notification
queue but it can have already moved to access_list (userspace read the
event before closing the fanotify instance fd) which is protected by a
different lock.  Thus when fsnotify_remove_event() races with
fanotify_release() operating on access_list, the list can get corrupted.

Fix the problem by moving all the logic removing permission events from
the lists to one place - fanotify_release().

Fixes: 5838d4442bd5 ("fanotify: fix double free of pending permission events")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473797711-14111-3-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reported-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 96d41019e3ac55f6f0115b0ce97e4f24a3d636d2 ]

fanotify_get_response() calls fsnotify_remove_event() when it finds that
group is being released from fanotify_release() (bypass_perm is set).

However the event it removes need not be only in the group's notification
queue but it can have already moved to access_list (userspace read the
event before closing the fanotify instance fd) which is protected by a
different lock.  Thus when fsnotify_remove_event() races with
fanotify_release() operating on access_list, the list can get corrupted.

Fix the problem by moving all the logic removing permission events from
the lists to one place - fanotify_release().

Fixes: 5838d4442bd5 ("fanotify: fix double free of pending permission events")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473797711-14111-3-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reported-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fsnotify: add a way to stop queueing events on group shutdown</title>
<updated>2016-10-06T02:40:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-19T21:44:27+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 12703dbfeb15402260e7554d32a34ac40c233990 ]

Implement a function that can be called when a group is being shutdown
to stop queueing new events to the group.  Fanotify will use this.

Fixes: 5838d4442bd5 ("fanotify: fix double free of pending permission events")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473797711-14111-2-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 12703dbfeb15402260e7554d32a34ac40c233990 ]

Implement a function that can be called when a group is being shutdown
to stop queueing new events to the group.  Fanotify will use this.

Fixes: 5838d4442bd5 ("fanotify: fix double free of pending permission events")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473797711-14111-2-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fsnotify: fix oops in fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group_flags()</title>
<updated>2015-08-19T17:16:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-06T22:46:42+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8f2f3eb59dff4ec538de55f2e0592fec85966aab ]

fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group_flags() can race with
fsnotify_destroy_marks() so that when fsnotify_destroy_mark_locked()
drops mark_mutex, a mark from the list iterated by
fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group_flags() can be freed and thus the next
entry pointer we have cached may become stale and we dereference free
memory.

Fix the problem by first moving marks to free to a special private list
and then always free the first entry in the special list.  This method
is safe even when entries from the list can disappear once we drop the
lock.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.com&gt;
Reported-by: Ashish Sangwan &lt;a.sangwan@samsung.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ashish Sangwan &lt;a.sangwan@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Lino Sanfilippo &lt;LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8f2f3eb59dff4ec538de55f2e0592fec85966aab ]

fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group_flags() can race with
fsnotify_destroy_marks() so that when fsnotify_destroy_mark_locked()
drops mark_mutex, a mark from the list iterated by
fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group_flags() can be freed and thus the next
entry pointer we have cached may become stale and we dereference free
memory.

Fix the problem by first moving marks to free to a special private list
and then always free the first entry in the special list.  This method
is safe even when entries from the list can disappear once we drop the
lock.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.com&gt;
Reported-by: Ashish Sangwan &lt;a.sangwan@samsung.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ashish Sangwan &lt;a.sangwan@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Lino Sanfilippo &lt;LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>move d_rcu from overlapping d_child to overlapping d_alias</title>
<updated>2014-12-16T17:39:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-26T23:19:16+00:00</published>
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commit 946e51f2bf37f1656916eb75bd0742ba33983c28 upstream.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 946e51f2bf37f1656916eb75bd0742ba33983c28 upstream.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>fanotify: fix notification of groups with inode &amp; mount marks</title>
<updated>2014-11-14T00:17:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-13T23:19:33+00:00</published>
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fsnotify() needs to merge inode and mount marks lists when notifying
groups about events so that ignore masks from inode marks are reflected
in mount mark notifications and groups are notified in proper order
(according to priorities).

Currently the sorting of the lists done by fsnotify_add_inode_mark() /
fsnotify_add_vfsmount_mark() and fsnotify() differed which resulted
ignore masks not being used in some cases.

Fix the problem by always using the same comparison function when
sorting / merging the mark lists.

Thanks to Heinrich Schuchardt for improvements of my patch.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87721
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reported-by: Heinrich Schuchardt &lt;xypron.glpk@gmx.de&gt;
Tested-by: Heinrich Schuchardt &lt;xypron.glpk@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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fsnotify() needs to merge inode and mount marks lists when notifying
groups about events so that ignore masks from inode marks are reflected
in mount mark notifications and groups are notified in proper order
(according to priorities).

Currently the sorting of the lists done by fsnotify_add_inode_mark() /
fsnotify_add_vfsmount_mark() and fsnotify() differed which resulted
ignore masks not being used in some cases.

Fix the problem by always using the same comparison function when
sorting / merging the mark lists.

Thanks to Heinrich Schuchardt for improvements of my patch.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87721
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reported-by: Heinrich Schuchardt &lt;xypron.glpk@gmx.de&gt;
Tested-by: Heinrich Schuchardt &lt;xypron.glpk@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fsnotify: next_i is freed during fsnotify_unmount_inodes.</title>
<updated>2014-10-29T23:33:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jerry Hoemann</name>
<email>jerry.hoemann@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-29T21:50:22+00:00</published>
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During file system stress testing on 3.10 and 3.12 based kernels, the
umount command occasionally hung in fsnotify_unmount_inodes in the
section of code:

                spin_lock(&amp;inode-&gt;i_lock);
                if (inode-&gt;i_state &amp; (I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE|I_NEW)) {
                        spin_unlock(&amp;inode-&gt;i_lock);
                        continue;
                }

As this section of code holds the global inode_sb_list_lock, eventually
the system hangs trying to acquire the lock.

Multiple crash dumps showed:

The inode-&gt;i_state == 0x60 and i_count == 0 and i_sb_list would point
back at itself.  As this is not the value of list upon entry to the
function, the kernel never exits the loop.

To help narrow down problem, the call to list_del_init in
inode_sb_list_del was changed to list_del.  This poisons the pointers in
the i_sb_list and causes a kernel to panic if it transverse a freed
inode.

Subsequent stress testing paniced in fsnotify_unmount_inodes at the
bottom of the list_for_each_entry_safe loop showing next_i had become
free.

We believe the root cause of the problem is that next_i is being freed
during the window of time that the list_for_each_entry_safe loop
temporarily releases inode_sb_list_lock to call fsnotify and
fsnotify_inode_delete.

The code in fsnotify_unmount_inodes attempts to prevent the freeing of
inode and next_i by calling __iget.  However, the code doesn't do the
__iget call on next_i

	if i_count == 0 or
	if i_state &amp; (I_FREEING | I_WILL_FREE)

The patch addresses this issue by advancing next_i in the above two cases
until we either find a next_i which we can __iget or we reach the end of
the list.  This makes the handling of next_i more closely match the
handling of the variable "inode."

The time to reproduce the hang is highly variable (from hours to days.) We
ran the stress test on a 3.10 kernel with the proposed patch for a week
without failure.

During list_for_each_entry_safe, next_i is becoming free causing
the loop to never terminate.  Advance next_i in those cases where
__iget is not done.

Signed-off-by: Jerry Hoemann &lt;jerry.hoemann@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Kirsher &lt;jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ken Helias &lt;kenhelias@firemail.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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During file system stress testing on 3.10 and 3.12 based kernels, the
umount command occasionally hung in fsnotify_unmount_inodes in the
section of code:

                spin_lock(&amp;inode-&gt;i_lock);
                if (inode-&gt;i_state &amp; (I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE|I_NEW)) {
                        spin_unlock(&amp;inode-&gt;i_lock);
                        continue;
                }

As this section of code holds the global inode_sb_list_lock, eventually
the system hangs trying to acquire the lock.

Multiple crash dumps showed:

The inode-&gt;i_state == 0x60 and i_count == 0 and i_sb_list would point
back at itself.  As this is not the value of list upon entry to the
function, the kernel never exits the loop.

To help narrow down problem, the call to list_del_init in
inode_sb_list_del was changed to list_del.  This poisons the pointers in
the i_sb_list and causes a kernel to panic if it transverse a freed
inode.

Subsequent stress testing paniced in fsnotify_unmount_inodes at the
bottom of the list_for_each_entry_safe loop showing next_i had become
free.

We believe the root cause of the problem is that next_i is being freed
during the window of time that the list_for_each_entry_safe loop
temporarily releases inode_sb_list_lock to call fsnotify and
fsnotify_inode_delete.

The code in fsnotify_unmount_inodes attempts to prevent the freeing of
inode and next_i by calling __iget.  However, the code doesn't do the
__iget call on next_i

	if i_count == 0 or
	if i_state &amp; (I_FREEING | I_WILL_FREE)

The patch addresses this issue by advancing next_i in the above two cases
until we either find a next_i which we can __iget or we reach the end of
the list.  This makes the handling of next_i more closely match the
handling of the variable "inode."

The time to reproduce the hang is highly variable (from hours to days.) We
ran the stress test on a 3.10 kernel with the proposed patch for a week
without failure.

During list_for_each_entry_safe, next_i is becoming free causing
the loop to never terminate.  Advance next_i in those cases where
__iget is not done.

Signed-off-by: Jerry Hoemann &lt;jerry.hoemann@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Kirsher &lt;jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ken Helias &lt;kenhelias@firemail.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'locks-v3.18-1' of git://git.samba.org/jlayton/linux</title>
<updated>2014-10-11T17:21:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2014-10-11T17:21:34+00:00</published>
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Pull file locking related changes from Jeff Layton:
 "This release is a little more busy for file locking changes than the
  last:

   - a set of patches from Kinglong Mee to fix the lockowner handling in
     knfsd
   - a pile of cleanups to the internal file lease API.  This should get
     us a bit closer to allowing for setlease methods that can block.

  There are some dependencies between mine and Bruce's trees this cycle,
  and I based my tree on top of the requisite patches in Bruce's tree"

* tag 'locks-v3.18-1' of git://git.samba.org/jlayton/linux: (26 commits)
  locks: fix fcntl_setlease/getlease return when !CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING
  locks: flock_make_lock should return a struct file_lock (or PTR_ERR)
  locks: set fl_owner for leases to filp instead of current-&gt;files
  locks: give lm_break a return value
  locks: __break_lease cleanup in preparation of allowing direct removal of leases
  locks: remove i_have_this_lease check from __break_lease
  locks: move freeing of leases outside of i_lock
  locks: move i_lock acquisition into generic_*_lease handlers
  locks: define a lm_setup handler for leases
  locks: plumb a "priv" pointer into the setlease routines
  nfsd: don't keep a pointer to the lease in nfs4_file
  locks: clean up vfs_setlease kerneldoc comments
  locks: generic_delete_lease doesn't need a file_lock at all
  nfsd: fix potential lease memory leak in nfs4_setlease
  locks: close potential race in lease_get_mtime
  security: make security_file_set_fowner, f_setown and __f_setown void return
  locks: consolidate "nolease" routines
  locks: remove lock_may_read and lock_may_write
  lockd: rip out deferred lock handling from testlock codepath
  NFSD: Get reference of lockowner when coping file_lock
  ...
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Pull file locking related changes from Jeff Layton:
 "This release is a little more busy for file locking changes than the
  last:

   - a set of patches from Kinglong Mee to fix the lockowner handling in
     knfsd
   - a pile of cleanups to the internal file lease API.  This should get
     us a bit closer to allowing for setlease methods that can block.

  There are some dependencies between mine and Bruce's trees this cycle,
  and I based my tree on top of the requisite patches in Bruce's tree"

* tag 'locks-v3.18-1' of git://git.samba.org/jlayton/linux: (26 commits)
  locks: fix fcntl_setlease/getlease return when !CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING
  locks: flock_make_lock should return a struct file_lock (or PTR_ERR)
  locks: set fl_owner for leases to filp instead of current-&gt;files
  locks: give lm_break a return value
  locks: __break_lease cleanup in preparation of allowing direct removal of leases
  locks: remove i_have_this_lease check from __break_lease
  locks: move freeing of leases outside of i_lock
  locks: move i_lock acquisition into generic_*_lease handlers
  locks: define a lm_setup handler for leases
  locks: plumb a "priv" pointer into the setlease routines
  nfsd: don't keep a pointer to the lease in nfs4_file
  locks: clean up vfs_setlease kerneldoc comments
  locks: generic_delete_lease doesn't need a file_lock at all
  nfsd: fix potential lease memory leak in nfs4_setlease
  locks: close potential race in lease_get_mtime
  security: make security_file_set_fowner, f_setown and __f_setown void return
  locks: consolidate "nolease" routines
  locks: remove lock_may_read and lock_may_write
  lockd: rip out deferred lock handling from testlock codepath
  NFSD: Get reference of lockowner when coping file_lock
  ...
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