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As Al pointed out recently, if a process doing a sillyrename ends up getting issued a SIGKILL then it can end up returning back up to userspace while the RENAME operation is still going on the wire. When this happens, it will release the parent's i_mutex prematurely, and nfs_async_rename_done will call d_move without holding the it.

Holding the i_mutex is required to prevent dcache corruption. I sent a patch to Trond to fix this recently by simply unhashing the old and new dentries in this situation, and he has pushed it to Linus for 3.1. I think we'll also want this in 6.2 as well:

commit 73ca1001ed6881b476e8252adcd0eede1ea368ea
Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton>
Date:   Mon Jul 18 11:26:30 2011 -0400

    nfs: don't use d_move in nfs_async_rename_done

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hi Jeff,
QE need to know how to reproduce and verify the problem by run some test steps, so could you point out it? thanks.

There's no reproducer that I'm aware of. This was noticed by inspection. The thing to do here is just to test that sillyrenames still work after the patch. I think the connectathon suite already tests this so making sure that it doesn't regress is probably the best you can do for this.

Patch(es) available on kernel-2.6.32-188.el6

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1530.html