[CIFS] [CIFS] Do not take rename sem on most path based calls (during

building of full path) to avoid hang rename/readdir hang

Reported by Alan Tyson

Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/fs/cifs/link.c b/fs/cifs/link.c
index 9562f5bba65c..2ec99f833142 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/link.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/link.c
@@ -48,10 +48,8 @@ cifs_hardlink(struct dentry *old_file, struct inode *inode,
 /* No need to check for cross device links since server will do that
    BB note DFS case in future though (when we may have to check) */
 
-        mutex_lock(&inode->i_sb->s_vfs_rename_mutex);
         fromName = build_path_from_dentry(old_file);
         toName = build_path_from_dentry(direntry);
-        mutex_unlock(&inode->i_sb->s_vfs_rename_mutex);
         if((fromName == NULL) || (toName == NULL)) {
                 rc = -ENOMEM;
                 goto cifs_hl_exit;
@@ -103,9 +101,7 @@ cifs_follow_link(struct dentry *direntry, struct nameidata *nd)
 
         xid = GetXid();
 
-        mutex_lock(&direntry->d_sb->s_vfs_rename_mutex);
         full_path = build_path_from_dentry(direntry);
-        mutex_unlock(&direntry->d_sb->s_vfs_rename_mutex);
 
         if (!full_path)
                 goto out_no_free;
@@ -164,9 +160,7 @@ cifs_symlink(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *direntry, const char *symname)
         cifs_sb = CIFS_SB(inode->i_sb);
         pTcon = cifs_sb->tcon;
 
-        mutex_lock(&inode->i_sb->s_vfs_rename_mutex);
         full_path = build_path_from_dentry(direntry);
-        mutex_unlock(&inode->i_sb->s_vfs_rename_mutex);
 
         if(full_path == NULL) {
                 FreeXid(xid);