On Sat, Jun 14, 2025 at 07:02:25AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > ... and fix an old deadlock on spufs_mkdir() failures to populate > subdirectory - spufs_rmdir() had always been taking lock on the > victim, so doing it while the victim is locked is a bad idea. > > Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- Fwiw, I think simple_recursive_removal_locked() might be better. It's longer and arguably uglier but it clearer communicates that its the same helper as simple_recursive_removal() just with the assumption that the caller already holds the lock. Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
