David Howells
823869e1e6
The ->get_link() method may be entered under RCU pathwalk conditions (in
which case, the dentry pointer is NULL). This is not taken account of by
afs_atcell_get_link() and lockdep will complain when it tries to lock an
rwsem.
Fix this by marking net->ws_cell as __rcu and using RCU access macros on it
and by making afs_atcell_get_link() just return a pointer to the name in
RCU pathwalk without taking net->cells_lock or a ref on the cell as RCU
will protect the name storage (the cell is already freed via call_rcu()).
Fixes: 30bca65bbb ("afs: Make /afs/@cell and /afs/.@cell symlinks")
Reported-by: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310094206.801057-2-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v4
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