From 64e67e8694252c1bf01b802ee911be3fee62c36b 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: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/shmem.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index 5d076022da24..3d721d5591dd 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -1158,9 +1158,7 @@ static int shmem_getattr(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, stat->attributes_mask |= (STATX_ATTR_APPEND | STATX_ATTR_IMMUTABLE | STATX_ATTR_NODUMP); - inode_lock_shared(inode); generic_fillattr(idmap, request_mask, inode, stat); - inode_unlock_shared(inode); if (shmem_is_huge(inode, 0, false, NULL, 0)) stat->blksize = HPAGE_PMD_SIZE;