From a3c65022d89d5baa2cea8e87a6de983ea305f14c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Morton Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 16:57:24 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] mm: revert "mm: shmem: fix data-race in shmem_getattr()" commit d1aa0c04294e29883d65eac6c2f72fe95cc7c049 upstream. Revert d949d1d14fa2 ("mm: shmem: fix data-race in shmem_getattr()") as suggested by Chuck [1]. It is causing deadlocks when accessing tmpfs over NFS. As Hugh commented, "added just to silence a syzbot sanitizer splat: added where there has never been any practical problem". Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZzdxKF39VEmXSSyN@tissot.1015granger.net [1] Fixes: d949d1d14fa2 ("mm: shmem: fix data-race in shmem_getattr()") Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Chuck Lever Cc: Jeongjun Park Cc: Yu Zhao Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/shmem.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index 6bd14e590e3c..264229680ad7 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -1011,9 +1011,7 @@ static int shmem_getattr(const struct path *path, struct kstat *stat, shmem_recalc_inode(inode); spin_unlock_irq(&info->lock); } - inode_lock_shared(inode); generic_fillattr(inode, stat); - inode_unlock_shared(inode); if (is_huge_enabled(sb_info)) stat->blksize = HPAGE_PMD_SIZE;