ovl: do not encode lower fh with upper sb_writers held
[ Upstream commit 5b02bfc1 ] When lower fs is a nested overlayfs, calling encode_fh() on a lower directory dentry may trigger copy up and take sb_writers on the upper fs of the lower nested overlayfs. The lower nested overlayfs may have the same upper fs as this overlayfs, so nested sb_writers lock is illegal. Move all the callers that encode lower fh to before ovl_want_write(). Signed-off-by:Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Stable-dep-of: c45beebf ("ovl: support encoding fid from inode with no alias") Signed-off-by:
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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