From 83f2c45e63935a325f73bde98b1609e0976a12e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 17:57:29 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] NFS: Remove unnecessary inode locking in nfs_llseek_dir()

Remove the contentious inode lock, and instead provide thread safety
using the file->f_lock spinlock.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
---
 fs/nfs/dir.c | 9 ++++-----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c
index cb52db9a0cfb70..e56b1bd99537c6 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c
@@ -955,7 +955,6 @@ out:
 
 static loff_t nfs_llseek_dir(struct file *filp, loff_t offset, int whence)
 {
-	struct inode *inode = file_inode(filp);
 	struct nfs_open_dir_context *dir_ctx = filp->private_data;
 
 	dfprintk(FILE, "NFS: llseek dir(%pD2, %lld, %d)\n",
@@ -967,15 +966,15 @@ static loff_t nfs_llseek_dir(struct file *filp, loff_t offset, int whence)
 	case SEEK_SET:
 		if (offset < 0)
 			return -EINVAL;
-		inode_lock(inode);
+		spin_lock(&filp->f_lock);
 		break;
 	case SEEK_CUR:
 		if (offset == 0)
 			return filp->f_pos;
-		inode_lock(inode);
+		spin_lock(&filp->f_lock);
 		offset += filp->f_pos;
 		if (offset < 0) {
-			inode_unlock(inode);
+			spin_unlock(&filp->f_lock);
 			return -EINVAL;
 		}
 	}
@@ -987,7 +986,7 @@ static loff_t nfs_llseek_dir(struct file *filp, loff_t offset, int whence)
 			dir_ctx->dir_cookie = 0;
 		dir_ctx->duped = 0;
 	}
-	inode_unlock(inode);
+	spin_unlock(&filp->f_lock);
 	return offset;
 }
 
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