On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 08:04:49PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 03:01:25PM +0800, YANG LI wrote:
> > Goto statement jumping will cause lock to be executed again without
> > executing unlock, placing the lock statement in front of goto
> > label to fix this problem.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: YANG LI <abaci-bug...@linux.alibaba.com>
> > Reported-by: Abaci <ab...@linux.alibaba.com>
> 
> I am sorry, but have you even attempted to trigger that codepath?
> Just to test your patch...
> 
> FWIW, the patch is completely broken.  Obviously so, since you
> have dput() done just before goto restart and dput() in very
> much capable of blocking.  It should never be called with spinlocks
> held.  And if you look at __dentry_kill() (well, dentry_unlink_inode()
> called by __dentry_kill()), you will see that it bloody well *DOES*
> drop inode->i_lock.

Not only that, but the function is even _annotated_ to that effect.
So this 'abaci' tool you have isn't even capable of the bare minimum.

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