From d3e7d20befd9d07db2955015a3f294c0a0a771d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kaixu Xia <kaixuxia@tencent.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 16:10:16 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: use the normal helper to get the actual inode

Here we use the READ_ONCE to fix race conditions in ->d_compare() and
->d_hash() when they are called in RCU-walk mode, seems we can use
the normal helper d_inode_rcu() to get the actual inode.

Signed-off-by: Kaixu Xia <kaixuxia@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1602317416-1260-1-git-send-email-kaixuxia@tencent.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
---
 fs/ext4/dir.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/dir.c b/fs/ext4/dir.c
index 1d82336b1cd45..3bf6cb8e55f62 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/dir.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/dir.c
@@ -674,7 +674,7 @@ static int ext4_d_compare(const struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int len,
 {
 	struct qstr qstr = {.name = str, .len = len };
 	const struct dentry *parent = READ_ONCE(dentry->d_parent);
-	const struct inode *inode = READ_ONCE(parent->d_inode);
+	const struct inode *inode = d_inode_rcu(parent);
 	char strbuf[DNAME_INLINE_LEN];
 
 	if (!inode || !IS_CASEFOLDED(inode) ||
@@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ static int ext4_d_hash(const struct dentry *dentry, struct qstr *str)
 {
 	const struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(dentry->d_sb);
 	const struct unicode_map *um = sbi->s_encoding;
-	const struct inode *inode = READ_ONCE(dentry->d_inode);
+	const struct inode *inode = d_inode_rcu(dentry);
 	unsigned char *norm;
 	int len, ret = 0;
 
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