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From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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        stable@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 042/105] configfs_register_group() shouldnt be (and isnt) called in rmdirable parts
Date:   Mon, 11 Nov 2019 19:28:12 +0100
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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

commit f19e4ed1e1edbfa3c9ccb9fed17759b7d6db24c6 upstream.

revert cc57c07343bd "configfs: fix registered group removal"
It was an attempt to handle something that fundamentally doesn't
work - configfs_register_group() should never be done in a part
of tree that can be rmdir'ed.  And in mainline it never had been,
so let's not borrow trouble; the fix was racy anyway, it would take
a lot more to make that work and desired semantics is not clear.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/configfs/dir.c |   11 -----------
 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/configfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/configfs/dir.c
@@ -1782,16 +1782,6 @@ void configfs_unregister_group(struct co
 	struct dentry *dentry = group->cg_item.ci_dentry;
 	struct dentry *parent = group->cg_item.ci_parent->ci_dentry;
 
-	mutex_lock(&subsys->su_mutex);
-	if (!group->cg_item.ci_parent->ci_group) {
-		/*
-		 * The parent has already been unlinked and detached
-		 * due to a rmdir.
-		 */
-		goto unlink_group;
-	}
-	mutex_unlock(&subsys->su_mutex);
-
 	inode_lock_nested(d_inode(parent), I_MUTEX_PARENT);
 	spin_lock(&configfs_dirent_lock);
 	configfs_detach_prep(dentry, NULL);
@@ -1806,7 +1796,6 @@ void configfs_unregister_group(struct co
 	dput(dentry);
 
 	mutex_lock(&subsys->su_mutex);
-unlink_group:
 	unlink_group(group);
 	mutex_unlock(&subsys->su_mutex);
 }