diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking.rst
index dccd61c..05ea387 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking.rst
@@ -11,129 +11,268 @@ When taking the i_rwsem on multiple non-directory objects, we
 always acquire the locks in order by increasing address.  We'll call
 that "inode pointer" order in the following.
 
-For our purposes all operations fall in 5 classes:
 
-1) read access.  Locking rules: caller locks directory we are accessing.
-The lock is taken shared.
+Primitives
+==========
 
-2) object creation.  Locking rules: same as above, but the lock is taken
-exclusive.
+For our purposes all operations fall in 6 classes:
 
-3) object removal.  Locking rules: caller locks parent, finds victim,
-locks victim and calls the method.  Locks are exclusive.
+1. read access.  Locking rules:
 
-4) rename() that is _not_ cross-directory.  Locking rules: caller locks the
-parent and finds source and target.  We lock both (provided they exist).  If we
-need to lock two inodes of different type (dir vs non-dir), we lock directory
-first.  If we need to lock two inodes of the same type, lock them in inode
-pointer order.  Then call the method.  All locks are exclusive.
-NB: we might get away with locking the source (and target in exchange
-case) shared.
+	* lock the directory we are accessing (shared)
 
-5) link creation.  Locking rules:
+2. object creation.  Locking rules:
 
-	* lock parent
-	* check that source is not a directory
-	* lock source
-	* call the method.
+	* lock the directory we are accessing (exclusive)
 
-All locks are exclusive.
+3. object removal.  Locking rules:
 
-6) cross-directory rename.  The trickiest in the whole bunch.  Locking
-rules:
+	* lock the parent (exclusive)
+	* find the victim
+	* lock the victim (exclusive)
 
-	* lock the filesystem
-	* lock parents in "ancestors first" order. If one is not ancestor of
-	  the other, lock them in inode pointer order.
-	* find source and target.
-	* if old parent is equal to or is a descendent of target
-	  fail with -ENOTEMPTY
-	* if new parent is equal to or is a descendent of source
-	  fail with -ELOOP
-	* Lock both the source and the target provided they exist. If we
-	  need to lock two inodes of different type (dir vs non-dir), we lock
-	  the directory first. If we need to lock two inodes of the same type,
-	  lock them in inode pointer order.
-	* call the method.
-
-All ->i_rwsem are taken exclusive.  Again, we might get away with locking
-the source (and target in exchange case) shared.
-
-The rules above obviously guarantee that all directories that are going to be
-read, modified or removed by method will be locked by caller.
+4. link creation.  Locking rules:
+
+	* lock the parent (exclusive)
+	* check that the source is not a directory
+	* lock the source (exclusive; probably could be weakened to shared)
+
+5. rename that is _not_ cross-directory.  Locking rules:
+
+	* lock the parent (exclusive)
+	* find the source and target
+	* decide which of the source and target need to be locked.
+	  The source needs to be locked if it's a non-directory, target - if it's
+	  a non-directory or about to be removed.
+	* take the locks that need to be taken (exlusive), in inode pointer order
+	  if need to take both (that can happen only when both source and target
+	  are non-directories - the source because it wouldn't need to be locked
+	  otherwise and the target because mixing directory and non-directory is
+	  allowed only with RENAME_EXCHANGE, and that won't be removing the target).
 
+6. cross-directory rename.  The trickiest in the whole bunch.  Locking rules:
+
+	* lock the filesystem
+	* if the parents don't have a common ancestor, fail the operation.
+	* lock the parents in "ancestors first" order (exclusive). If neither is an
+	  ancestor of the other, lock the parent of source first.
+	* find the source and target.
+	* verify that the source is not a descendent of the target and
+	  target is not a descendent of source; fail the operation otherwise.
+	* lock the subdirectories involved (exclusive), source before target.
+	* lock the non-directories involved (exclusive), in inode pointer order.
+
+The rules above obviously guarantee that all directories that are going
+to be read, modified or removed by method will be locked by the caller.
+
+
+Splicing
+========
+
+There is one more thing to consider - splicing.  It's not an operation
+in its own right; it may happen as part of lookup.  We speak of the
+operations on directory trees, but we obviously do not have the full
+picture of those - especially for network filesystems.  What we have
+is a bunch of subtrees visible in dcache and locking happens on those.
+Trees grow as we do operations; memory pressure prunes them.  Normally
+that's not a problem, but there is a nasty twist - what should we do
+when one growing tree reaches the root of another?  That can happen in
+several scenarios, starting from "somebody mounted two nested subtrees
+from the same NFS4 server and doing lookups in one of them has reached
+the root of another"; there's also open-by-fhandle stuff, and there's a
+possibility that directory we see in one place gets moved by the server
+to another and we run into it when we do a lookup.
+
+For a lot of reasons we want to have the same directory present in dcache
+only once.  Multiple aliases are not allowed.  So when lookup runs into
+a subdirectory that already has an alias, something needs to be done with
+dcache trees.  Lookup is already holding the parent locked.  If alias is
+a root of separate tree, it gets attached to the directory we are doing a
+lookup in, under the name we'd been looking for.  If the alias is already
+a child of the directory we are looking in, it changes name to the one
+we'd been looking for.  No extra locking is involved in these two cases.
+However, if it's a child of some other directory, the things get trickier.
+First of all, we verify that it is *not* an ancestor of our directory
+and fail the lookup if it is.  Then we try to lock the filesystem and the
+current parent of the alias.  If either trylock fails, we fail the lookup.
+If trylocks succeed, we detach the alias from its current parent and
+attach to our directory, under the name we are looking for.
+
+Note that splicing does *not* involve any modification of the filesystem;
+all we change is the view in dcache.  Moreover, holding a directory locked
+exclusive prevents such changes involving its children and holding the
+filesystem lock prevents any changes of tree topology, other than having a
+root of one tree becoming a child of directory in another.  In particular,
+if two dentries have been found to have a common ancestor after taking
+the filesystem lock, their relationship will remain unchanged until
+the lock is dropped.  So from the directory operations' point of view
+splicing is almost irrelevant - the only place where it matters is one
+step in cross-directory renames; we need to be careful when checking if
+parents have a common ancestor.
+
+
+Multiple-filesystem stuff
+=========================
+
+For some filesystems a method can involve a directory operation on
+another filesystem; it may be ecryptfs doing operation in the underlying
+filesystem, overlayfs doing something to the layers, network filesystem
+using a local one as a cache, etc.  In all such cases the operations
+on other filesystems must follow the same locking rules.  Moreover, "a
+directory operation on this filesystem might involve directory operations
+on that filesystem" should be an asymmetric relation (or, if you will,
+it should be possible to rank the filesystems so that directory operation
+on a filesystem could trigger directory operations only on higher-ranked
+ones - in these terms overlayfs ranks lower than its layers, network
+filesystem ranks lower than whatever it caches on, etc.)
+
+
+Deadlock avoidance
+==================
 
 If no directory is its own ancestor, the scheme above is deadlock-free.
 
 Proof:
 
-	First of all, at any moment we have a linear ordering of the
-	objects - A < B iff (A is an ancestor of B) or (B is not an ancestor
-        of A and ptr(A) < ptr(B)).
-
-	That ordering can change.  However, the following is true:
-
-(1) if object removal or non-cross-directory rename holds lock on A and
-    attempts to acquire lock on B, A will remain the parent of B until we
-    acquire the lock on B.  (Proof: only cross-directory rename can change
-    the parent of object and it would have to lock the parent).
-
-(2) if cross-directory rename holds the lock on filesystem, order will not
-    change until rename acquires all locks.  (Proof: other cross-directory
-    renames will be blocked on filesystem lock and we don't start changing
-    the order until we had acquired all locks).
-
-(3) locks on non-directory objects are acquired only after locks on
-    directory objects, and are acquired in inode pointer order.
-    (Proof: all operations but renames take lock on at most one
-    non-directory object, except renames, which take locks on source and
-    target in inode pointer order in the case they are not directories.)
-
-Now consider the minimal deadlock.  Each process is blocked on
-attempt to acquire some lock and already holds at least one lock.  Let's
-consider the set of contended locks.  First of all, filesystem lock is
-not contended, since any process blocked on it is not holding any locks.
-Thus all processes are blocked on ->i_rwsem.
-
-By (3), any process holding a non-directory lock can only be
-waiting on another non-directory lock with a larger address.  Therefore
-the process holding the "largest" such lock can always make progress, and
-non-directory objects are not included in the set of contended locks.
-
-Thus link creation can't be a part of deadlock - it can't be
-blocked on source and it means that it doesn't hold any locks.
-
-Any contended object is either held by cross-directory rename or
-has a child that is also contended.  Indeed, suppose that it is held by
-operation other than cross-directory rename.  Then the lock this operation
-is blocked on belongs to child of that object due to (1).
-
-It means that one of the operations is cross-directory rename.
-Otherwise the set of contended objects would be infinite - each of them
-would have a contended child and we had assumed that no object is its
-own descendent.  Moreover, there is exactly one cross-directory rename
-(see above).
-
-Consider the object blocking the cross-directory rename.  One
-of its descendents is locked by cross-directory rename (otherwise we
-would again have an infinite set of contended objects).  But that
-means that cross-directory rename is taking locks out of order.  Due
-to (2) the order hadn't changed since we had acquired filesystem lock.
-But locking rules for cross-directory rename guarantee that we do not
-try to acquire lock on descendent before the lock on ancestor.
-Contradiction.  I.e.  deadlock is impossible.  Q.E.D.
-
+There is a ranking on the locks, such that all primitives take
+them in order of non-decreasing rank.  Namely,
+
+  * rank ->i_rwsem of non-directories on given filesystem in inode pointer
+    order.
+  * put ->i_rwsem of all directories on a filesystem at the same rank,
+    lower than ->i_rwsem of any non-directory on the same filesystem.
+  * put ->s_vfs_rename_mutex at rank lower than that of any ->i_rwsem
+    on the same filesystem.
+  * among the locks on different filesystems use the relative
+    rank of those filesystems.
+
+For example, if we have NFS filesystem caching on a local one, we have
+
+  1. ->s_vfs_rename_mutex of NFS filesystem
+  2. ->i_rwsem of directories on that NFS filesystem, same rank for all
+  3. ->i_rwsem of non-directories on that filesystem, in order of
+     increasing address of inode
+  4. ->s_vfs_rename_mutex of local filesystem
+  5. ->i_rwsem of directories on the local filesystem, same rank for all
+  6. ->i_rwsem of non-directories on local filesystem, in order of
+     increasing address of inode.
+
+It's easy to verify that operations never take a lock with rank
+lower than that of an already held lock.
+
+Suppose deadlocks are possible.  Consider the minimal deadlocked
+set of threads.  It is a cycle of several threads, each blocked on a lock
+held by the next thread in the cycle.
+
+Since the locking order is consistent with the ranking, all
+contended locks in the minimal deadlock will be of the same rank,
+i.e. they all will be ->i_rwsem of directories on the same filesystem.
+Moreover, without loss of generality we can assume that all operations
+are done directly to that filesystem and none of them has actually
+reached the method call.
+
+In other words, we have a cycle of threads, T1,..., Tn,
+and the same number of directories (D1,...,Dn) such that
+
+	T1 is blocked on D1 which is held by T2
+
+	T2 is blocked on D2 which is held by T3
+
+	...
+
+	Tn is blocked on Dn which is held by T1.
+
+Each operation in the minimal cycle must have locked at least
+one directory and blocked on attempt to lock another.  That leaves
+only 3 possible operations: directory removal (locks parent, then
+child), same-directory rename killing a subdirectory (ditto) and
+cross-directory rename of some sort.
+
+There must be a cross-directory rename in the set; indeed,
+if all operations had been of the "lock parent, then child" sort
+we would have Dn a parent of D1, which is a parent of D2, which is
+a parent of D3, ..., which is a parent of Dn.  Relationships couldn't
+have changed since the moment directory locks had been acquired,
+so they would all hold simultaneously at the deadlock time and
+we would have a loop.
+
+Since all operations are on the same filesystem, there can't be
+more than one cross-directory rename among them.  Without loss of
+generality we can assume that T1 is the one doing a cross-directory
+rename and everything else is of the "lock parent, then child" sort.
+
+In other words, we have a cross-directory rename that locked
+Dn and blocked on attempt to lock D1, which is a parent of D2, which is
+a parent of D3, ..., which is a parent of Dn.  Relationships between
+D1,...,Dn all hold simultaneously at the deadlock time.  Moreover,
+cross-directory rename does not get to locking any directories until it
+has acquired filesystem lock and verified that directories involved have
+a common ancestor, which guarantees that ancestry relationships between
+all of them had been stable.
+
+Consider the order in which directories are locked by the
+cross-directory rename; parents first, then possibly their children.
+Dn and D1 would have to be among those, with Dn locked before D1.
+Which pair could it be?
+
+It can't be the parents - indeed, since D1 is an ancestor of Dn,
+it would be the first parent to be locked.  Therefore at least one of the
+children must be involved and thus neither of them could be a descendent
+of another - otherwise the operation would not have progressed past
+locking the parents.
+
+It can't be a parent and its child; otherwise we would've had
+a loop, since the parents are locked before the children, so the parent
+would have to be a descendent of its child.
+
+It can't be a parent and a child of another parent either.
+Otherwise the child of the parent in question would've been a descendent
+of another child.
+
+That leaves only one possibility - namely, both Dn and D1 are
+among the children, in some order.  But that is also impossible, since
+neither of the children is a descendent of another.
+
+That concludes the proof, since the set of operations with the
+properties requiered for a minimal deadlock can not exist.
+
+Note that the check for having a common ancestor in cross-directory
+rename is crucial - without it a deadlock would be possible.  Indeed,
+suppose the parents are initially in different trees; we would lock the
+parent of source, then try to lock the parent of target, only to have
+an unrelated lookup splice a distant ancestor of source to some distant
+descendent of the parent of target.   At that point we have cross-directory
+rename holding the lock on parent of source and trying to lock its
+distant ancestor.  Add a bunch of rmdir() attempts on all directories
+in between (all of those would fail with -ENOTEMPTY, had they ever gotten
+the locks) and voila - we have a deadlock.
+
+Loop avoidance
+==============
 
 These operations are guaranteed to avoid loop creation.  Indeed,
 the only operation that could introduce loops is cross-directory rename.
-Since the only new (parent, child) pair added by rename() is (new parent,
-source), such loop would have to contain these objects and the rest of it
-would have to exist before rename().  I.e. at the moment of loop creation
-rename() responsible for that would be holding filesystem lock and new parent
-would have to be equal to or a descendent of source.  But that means that
-new parent had been equal to or a descendent of source since the moment when
-we had acquired filesystem lock and rename() would fail with -ELOOP in that
-case.
+Suppose after the operation there is a loop; since there hadn't been such
+loops before the operation, at least on of the nodes in that loop must've
+had its parent changed.  In other words, the loop must be passing through
+the source or, in case of exchange, possibly the target.
+
+Since the operation has succeeded, neither source nor target could have
+been ancestors of each other.  Therefore the chain of ancestors starting
+in the parent of source could not have passed through the target and
+vice versa.  On the other hand, the chain of ancestors of any node could
+not have passed through the node itself, or we would've had a loop before
+the operation.  But everything other than source and target has kept
+the parent after the operation, so the operation does not change the
+chains of ancestors of (ex-)parents of source and target.  In particular,
+those chains must end after a finite number of steps.
+
+Now consider the loop created by the operation.  It passes through either
+source or target; the next node in the loop would be the ex-parent of
+target or source resp.  After that the loop would follow the chain of
+ancestors of that parent.  But as we have just shown, that chain must
+end after a finite number of steps, which means that it can't be a part
+of any loop.  Q.E.D.
 
 While this locking scheme works for arbitrary DAGs, it relies on
 ability to check that directory is a descendent of another object.  Current
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
index 421daf8..d5bf4b6 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ symlink:	exclusive
 mkdir:		exclusive
 unlink:		exclusive (both)
 rmdir:		exclusive (both)(see below)
-rename:		exclusive (all)	(see below)
+rename:		exclusive (both parents, some children)	(see below)
 readlink:	no
 get_link:	no
 setattr:	exclusive
@@ -123,6 +123,9 @@ get_offset_ctx  no
 	Additionally, ->rmdir(), ->unlink() and ->rename() have ->i_rwsem
 	exclusive on victim.
 	cross-directory ->rename() has (per-superblock) ->s_vfs_rename_sem.
+	->unlink() and ->rename() have ->i_rwsem exclusive on all non-directories
+	involved.
+	->rename() has ->i_rwsem exclusive on any subdirectory that changes parent.
 
 See Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking.rst for more detailed discussion
 of the locking scheme for directory operations.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
index ced3a67..c549fb2 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
@@ -1064,6 +1064,33 @@ generic_encode_ino32_fh() explicitly.
 
 ---
 
+**mandatory**
+
+If ->rename() update of .. on cross-directory move needs an exclusion with
+directory modifications, do *not* lock the subdirectory in question in your
+->rename() - it's done by the caller now [that item should've been added in
+28eceeda130f "fs: Lock moved directories"].
+
+---
+
+**mandatory**
+
+On same-directory ->rename() the (tautological) update of .. is not protected
+by any locks; just don't do it if the old parent is the same as the new one.
+We really can't lock two subdirectories in same-directory rename - not without
+deadlocks.
+
+---
+
+**mandatory**
+
+lock_rename() and lock_rename_child() may fail in cross-directory case, if
+their arguments do not have a common ancestor.  In that case ERR_PTR(-EXDEV)
+is returned, with no locks taken.  In-tree users updated; out-of-tree ones
+would need to do so.
+
+---
+
 **recommended**
 
 Block device freezing and thawing have been moved to holder operations.
diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/namei.c b/fs/cachefiles/namei.c
index 7bf7a5f..7ade836 100644
--- a/fs/cachefiles/namei.c
+++ b/fs/cachefiles/namei.c
@@ -305,6 +305,8 @@ try_again:
 
 	/* do the multiway lock magic */
 	trap = lock_rename(cache->graveyard, dir);
+	if (IS_ERR(trap))
+		return PTR_ERR(trap);
 
 	/* do some checks before getting the grave dentry */
 	if (rep->d_parent != dir || IS_DEADDIR(d_inode(rep))) {
diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
index d719368..5ed1e4c 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
@@ -607,6 +607,8 @@ ecryptfs_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *old_dir,
 	target_inode = d_inode(new_dentry);
 
 	trap = lock_rename(lower_old_dir_dentry, lower_new_dir_dentry);
+	if (IS_ERR(trap))
+		return PTR_ERR(trap);
 	dget(lower_new_dentry);
 	rc = -EINVAL;
 	if (lower_old_dentry->d_parent != lower_old_dir_dentry)
diff --git a/fs/ext2/namei.c b/fs/ext2/namei.c
index 65f702b..8346ab9 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/namei.c
@@ -325,6 +325,7 @@ static int ext2_rename (struct mnt_idmap * idmap,
 	struct ext2_dir_entry_2 * dir_de = NULL;
 	struct folio * old_folio;
 	struct ext2_dir_entry_2 * old_de;
+	bool old_is_dir = S_ISDIR(old_inode->i_mode);
 	int err;
 
 	if (flags & ~RENAME_NOREPLACE)
@@ -342,7 +343,7 @@ static int ext2_rename (struct mnt_idmap * idmap,
 	if (IS_ERR(old_de))
 		return PTR_ERR(old_de);
 
-	if (S_ISDIR(old_inode->i_mode)) {
+	if (old_is_dir && old_dir != new_dir) {
 		err = -EIO;
 		dir_de = ext2_dotdot(old_inode, &dir_folio);
 		if (!dir_de)
@@ -354,7 +355,7 @@ static int ext2_rename (struct mnt_idmap * idmap,
 		struct ext2_dir_entry_2 *new_de;
 
 		err = -ENOTEMPTY;
-		if (dir_de && !ext2_empty_dir (new_inode))
+		if (old_is_dir && !ext2_empty_dir(new_inode))
 			goto out_dir;
 
 		new_de = ext2_find_entry(new_dir, &new_dentry->d_name,
@@ -368,14 +369,14 @@ static int ext2_rename (struct mnt_idmap * idmap,
 		if (err)
 			goto out_dir;
 		inode_set_ctime_current(new_inode);
-		if (dir_de)
+		if (old_is_dir)
 			drop_nlink(new_inode);
 		inode_dec_link_count(new_inode);
 	} else {
 		err = ext2_add_link(new_dentry, old_inode);
 		if (err)
 			goto out_dir;
-		if (dir_de)
+		if (old_is_dir)
 			inode_inc_link_count(new_dir);
 	}
 
@@ -387,7 +388,7 @@ static int ext2_rename (struct mnt_idmap * idmap,
 	mark_inode_dirty(old_inode);
 
 	err = ext2_delete_entry(old_de, old_folio);
-	if (!err && dir_de) {
+	if (!err && old_is_dir) {
 		if (old_dir != new_dir)
 			err = ext2_set_link(old_inode, dir_de, dir_folio,
 					    new_dir, false);
diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index d252935..467ba47 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -3591,10 +3591,14 @@ struct ext4_renament {
 	int dir_inlined;
 };
 
-static int ext4_rename_dir_prepare(handle_t *handle, struct ext4_renament *ent)
+static int ext4_rename_dir_prepare(handle_t *handle, struct ext4_renament *ent, bool is_cross)
 {
 	int retval;
 
+	ent->is_dir = true;
+	if (!is_cross)
+		return 0;
+
 	ent->dir_bh = ext4_get_first_dir_block(handle, ent->inode,
 					      &retval, &ent->parent_de,
 					      &ent->dir_inlined);
@@ -3612,6 +3616,9 @@ static int ext4_rename_dir_finish(handle_t *handle, struct ext4_renament *ent,
 {
 	int retval;
 
+	if (!ent->dir_bh)
+		return 0;
+
 	ent->parent_de->inode = cpu_to_le32(dir_ino);
 	BUFFER_TRACE(ent->dir_bh, "call ext4_handle_dirty_metadata");
 	if (!ent->dir_inlined) {
@@ -3900,7 +3907,7 @@ static int ext4_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *old_dir,
 			if (new.dir != old.dir && EXT4_DIR_LINK_MAX(new.dir))
 				goto end_rename;
 		}
-		retval = ext4_rename_dir_prepare(handle, &old);
+		retval = ext4_rename_dir_prepare(handle, &old, new.dir != old.dir);
 		if (retval)
 			goto end_rename;
 	}
@@ -3964,7 +3971,7 @@ static int ext4_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *old_dir,
 	}
 	inode_set_mtime_to_ts(old.dir, inode_set_ctime_current(old.dir));
 	ext4_update_dx_flag(old.dir);
-	if (old.dir_bh) {
+	if (old.is_dir) {
 		retval = ext4_rename_dir_finish(handle, &old, new.dir->i_ino);
 		if (retval)
 			goto end_rename;
@@ -3987,7 +3994,7 @@ static int ext4_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *old_dir,
 	if (unlikely(retval))
 		goto end_rename;
 
-	if (S_ISDIR(old.inode->i_mode)) {
+	if (old.is_dir) {
 		/*
 		 * We disable fast commits here that's because the
 		 * replay code is not yet capable of changing dot dot
@@ -4114,14 +4121,12 @@ static int ext4_cross_rename(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry,
 		ext4_handle_sync(handle);
 
 	if (S_ISDIR(old.inode->i_mode)) {
-		old.is_dir = true;
-		retval = ext4_rename_dir_prepare(handle, &old);
+		retval = ext4_rename_dir_prepare(handle, &old, new.dir != old.dir);
 		if (retval)
 			goto end_rename;
 	}
 	if (S_ISDIR(new.inode->i_mode)) {
-		new.is_dir = true;
-		retval = ext4_rename_dir_prepare(handle, &new);
+		retval = ext4_rename_dir_prepare(handle, &new, new.dir != old.dir);
 		if (retval)
 			goto end_rename;
 	}
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/namei.c b/fs/f2fs/namei.c
index d0053b0..fdc97df 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/namei.c
@@ -963,6 +963,7 @@ static int f2fs_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *old_dir,
 	struct f2fs_dir_entry *old_dir_entry = NULL;
 	struct f2fs_dir_entry *old_entry;
 	struct f2fs_dir_entry *new_entry;
+	bool old_is_dir = S_ISDIR(old_inode->i_mode);
 	int err;
 
 	if (unlikely(f2fs_cp_error(sbi)))
@@ -1017,7 +1018,7 @@ static int f2fs_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *old_dir,
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	if (S_ISDIR(old_inode->i_mode)) {
+	if (old_is_dir && old_dir != new_dir) {
 		old_dir_entry = f2fs_parent_dir(old_inode, &old_dir_page);
 		if (!old_dir_entry) {
 			if (IS_ERR(old_dir_page))
@@ -1029,7 +1030,7 @@ static int f2fs_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *old_dir,
 	if (new_inode) {
 
 		err = -ENOTEMPTY;
-		if (old_dir_entry && !f2fs_empty_dir(new_inode))
+		if (old_is_dir && !f2fs_empty_dir(new_inode))
 			goto out_dir;
 
 		err = -ENOENT;
@@ -1054,7 +1055,7 @@ static int f2fs_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *old_dir,
 
 		inode_set_ctime_current(new_inode);
 		f2fs_down_write(&F2FS_I(new_inode)->i_sem);
-		if (old_dir_entry)
+		if (old_is_dir)
 			f2fs_i_links_write(new_inode, false);
 		f2fs_i_links_write(new_inode, false);
 		f2fs_up_write(&F2FS_I(new_inode)->i_sem);
@@ -1074,12 +1075,12 @@ static int f2fs_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *old_dir,
 			goto out_dir;
 		}
 
-		if (old_dir_entry)
+		if (old_is_dir)
 			f2fs_i_links_write(new_dir, true);
 	}
 
 	f2fs_down_write(&F2FS_I(old_inode)->i_sem);
-	if (!old_dir_entry || whiteout)
+	if (!old_is_dir || whiteout)
 		file_lost_pino(old_inode);
 	else
 		/* adjust dir's i_pino to pass fsck check */
@@ -1105,8 +1106,8 @@ static int f2fs_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *old_dir,
 		iput(whiteout);
 	}
 
-	if (old_dir_entry) {
-		if (old_dir != new_dir && !whiteout)
+	if (old_is_dir) {
+		if (old_dir_entry && !whiteout)
 			f2fs_set_link(old_inode, old_dir_entry,
 						old_dir_page, new_dir);
 		else
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index d23362a..91048c4 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -1089,48 +1089,6 @@ void discard_new_inode(struct inode *inode)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(discard_new_inode);
 
 /**
- * lock_two_inodes - lock two inodes (may be regular files but also dirs)
- *
- * Lock any non-NULL argument. The caller must make sure that if he is passing
- * in two directories, one is not ancestor of the other.  Zero, one or two
- * objects may be locked by this function.
- *
- * @inode1: first inode to lock
- * @inode2: second inode to lock
- * @subclass1: inode lock subclass for the first lock obtained
- * @subclass2: inode lock subclass for the second lock obtained
- */
-void lock_two_inodes(struct inode *inode1, struct inode *inode2,
-		     unsigned subclass1, unsigned subclass2)
-{
-	if (!inode1 || !inode2) {
-		/*
-		 * Make sure @subclass1 will be used for the acquired lock.
-		 * This is not strictly necessary (no current caller cares) but
-		 * let's keep things consistent.
-		 */
-		if (!inode1)
-			swap(inode1, inode2);
-		goto lock;
-	}
-
-	/*
-	 * If one object is directory and the other is not, we must make sure
-	 * to lock directory first as the other object may be its child.
-	 */
-	if (S_ISDIR(inode2->i_mode) == S_ISDIR(inode1->i_mode)) {
-		if (inode1 > inode2)
-			swap(inode1, inode2);
-	} else if (!S_ISDIR(inode1->i_mode))
-		swap(inode1, inode2);
-lock:
-	if (inode1)
-		inode_lock_nested(inode1, subclass1);
-	if (inode2 && inode2 != inode1)
-		inode_lock_nested(inode2, subclass2);
-}
-
-/**
  * lock_two_nondirectories - take two i_mutexes on non-directory objects
  *
  * Lock any non-NULL argument. Passed objects must not be directories.
@@ -1145,7 +1103,12 @@ void lock_two_nondirectories(struct inode *inode1, struct inode *inode2)
 		WARN_ON_ONCE(S_ISDIR(inode1->i_mode));
 	if (inode2)
 		WARN_ON_ONCE(S_ISDIR(inode2->i_mode));
-	lock_two_inodes(inode1, inode2, I_MUTEX_NORMAL, I_MUTEX_NONDIR2);
+	if (inode1 > inode2)
+		swap(inode1, inode2);
+	if (inode1)
+		inode_lock(inode1);
+	if (inode2 && inode2 != inode1)
+		inode_lock_nested(inode2, I_MUTEX_NONDIR2);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(lock_two_nondirectories);
 
diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h
index bf2ee2e..93cdeeb 100644
--- a/fs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/internal.h
@@ -197,8 +197,6 @@ extern long prune_icache_sb(struct super_block *sb, struct shrink_control *sc);
 int dentry_needs_remove_privs(struct mnt_idmap *, struct dentry *dentry);
 bool in_group_or_capable(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
 			 const struct inode *inode, vfsgid_t vfsgid);
-void lock_two_inodes(struct inode *inode1, struct inode *inode2,
-		     unsigned subclass1, unsigned subclass2);
 
 /*
  * fs-writeback.c
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 963576e..5c318d6 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -3013,27 +3013,37 @@ static inline int may_create(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
 	return inode_permission(idmap, dir, MAY_WRITE | MAY_EXEC);
 }
 
+// p1 != p2, both are on the same filesystem, ->s_vfs_rename_mutex is held
 static struct dentry *lock_two_directories(struct dentry *p1, struct dentry *p2)
 {
-	struct dentry *p;
+	struct dentry *p = p1, *q = p2, *r;
 
-	p = d_ancestor(p2, p1);
-	if (p) {
+	while ((r = p->d_parent) != p2 && r != p)
+		p = r;
+	if (r == p2) {
+		// p is a child of p2 and an ancestor of p1 or p1 itself
 		inode_lock_nested(p2->d_inode, I_MUTEX_PARENT);
-		inode_lock_nested(p1->d_inode, I_MUTEX_CHILD);
+		inode_lock_nested(p1->d_inode, I_MUTEX_PARENT2);
 		return p;
 	}
-
-	p = d_ancestor(p1, p2);
-	if (p) {
+	// p is the root of connected component that contains p1
+	// p2 does not occur on the path from p to p1
+	while ((r = q->d_parent) != p1 && r != p && r != q)
+		q = r;
+	if (r == p1) {
+		// q is a child of p1 and an ancestor of p2 or p2 itself
 		inode_lock_nested(p1->d_inode, I_MUTEX_PARENT);
-		inode_lock_nested(p2->d_inode, I_MUTEX_CHILD);
-		return p;
+		inode_lock_nested(p2->d_inode, I_MUTEX_PARENT2);
+		return q;
+	} else if (likely(r == p)) {
+		// both p2 and p1 are descendents of p
+		inode_lock_nested(p1->d_inode, I_MUTEX_PARENT);
+		inode_lock_nested(p2->d_inode, I_MUTEX_PARENT2);
+		return NULL;
+	} else { // no common ancestor at the time we'd been called
+		mutex_unlock(&p1->d_sb->s_vfs_rename_mutex);
+		return ERR_PTR(-EXDEV);
 	}
-
-	lock_two_inodes(p1->d_inode, p2->d_inode,
-			I_MUTEX_PARENT, I_MUTEX_PARENT2);
-	return NULL;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -4712,11 +4722,12 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(link, const char __user *, oldname, const char __user *, newname
  *
  *	a) we can get into loop creation.
  *	b) race potential - two innocent renames can create a loop together.
- *	   That's where 4.4 screws up. Current fix: serialization on
+ *	   That's where 4.4BSD screws up. Current fix: serialization on
  *	   sb->s_vfs_rename_mutex. We might be more accurate, but that's another
  *	   story.
- *	c) we have to lock _four_ objects - parents and victim (if it exists),
- *	   and source.
+ *	c) we may have to lock up to _four_ objects - parents and victim (if it exists),
+ *	   and source (if it's a non-directory or a subdirectory that moves to
+ *	   different parent).
  *	   And that - after we got ->i_mutex on parents (until then we don't know
  *	   whether the target exists).  Solution: try to be smart with locking
  *	   order for inodes.  We rely on the fact that tree topology may change
@@ -4748,6 +4759,7 @@ int vfs_rename(struct renamedata *rd)
 	bool new_is_dir = false;
 	unsigned max_links = new_dir->i_sb->s_max_links;
 	struct name_snapshot old_name;
+	bool lock_old_subdir, lock_new_subdir;
 
 	if (source == target)
 		return 0;
@@ -4801,15 +4813,32 @@ int vfs_rename(struct renamedata *rd)
 	take_dentry_name_snapshot(&old_name, old_dentry);
 	dget(new_dentry);
 	/*
-	 * Lock all moved children. Moved directories may need to change parent
-	 * pointer so they need the lock to prevent against concurrent
-	 * directory changes moving parent pointer. For regular files we've
-	 * historically always done this. The lockdep locking subclasses are
-	 * somewhat arbitrary but RENAME_EXCHANGE in particular can swap
-	 * regular files and directories so it's difficult to tell which
-	 * subclasses to use.
+	 * Lock children.
+	 * The source subdirectory needs to be locked on cross-directory
+	 * rename or cross-directory exchange since its parent changes.
+	 * The target subdirectory needs to be locked on cross-directory
+	 * exchange due to parent change and on any rename due to becoming
+	 * a victim.
+	 * Non-directories need locking in all cases (for NFS reasons);
+	 * they get locked after any subdirectories (in inode address order).
+	 *
+	 * NOTE: WE ONLY LOCK UNRELATED DIRECTORIES IN CROSS-DIRECTORY CASE.
+	 * NEVER, EVER DO THAT WITHOUT ->s_vfs_rename_mutex.
 	 */
-	lock_two_inodes(source, target, I_MUTEX_NORMAL, I_MUTEX_NONDIR2);
+	lock_old_subdir = new_dir != old_dir;
+	lock_new_subdir = new_dir != old_dir || !(flags & RENAME_EXCHANGE);
+	if (is_dir) {
+		if (lock_old_subdir)
+			inode_lock_nested(source, I_MUTEX_CHILD);
+		if (target && (!new_is_dir || lock_new_subdir))
+			inode_lock(target);
+	} else if (new_is_dir) {
+		if (lock_new_subdir)
+			inode_lock_nested(target, I_MUTEX_CHILD);
+		inode_lock(source);
+	} else {
+		lock_two_nondirectories(source, target);
+	}
 
 	error = -EPERM;
 	if (IS_SWAPFILE(source) || (target && IS_SWAPFILE(target)))
@@ -4857,8 +4886,9 @@ int vfs_rename(struct renamedata *rd)
 			d_exchange(old_dentry, new_dentry);
 	}
 out:
-	inode_unlock(source);
-	if (target)
+	if (!is_dir || lock_old_subdir)
+		inode_unlock(source);
+	if (target && (!new_is_dir || lock_new_subdir))
 		inode_unlock(target);
 	dput(new_dentry);
 	if (!error) {
@@ -4929,6 +4959,10 @@ retry:
 
 retry_deleg:
 	trap = lock_rename(new_path.dentry, old_path.dentry);
+	if (IS_ERR(trap)) {
+		error = PTR_ERR(trap);
+		goto exit_lock_rename;
+	}
 
 	old_dentry = lookup_one_qstr_excl(&old_last, old_path.dentry,
 					  lookup_flags);
@@ -4996,6 +5030,7 @@ exit4:
 	dput(old_dentry);
 exit3:
 	unlock_rename(new_path.dentry, old_path.dentry);
+exit_lock_rename:
 	if (delegated_inode) {
 		error = break_deleg_wait(&delegated_inode);
 		if (!error)
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
index 6e7e371..b7c7a92 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
@@ -1831,6 +1831,10 @@ retry:
 	}
 
 	trap = lock_rename(tdentry, fdentry);
+	if (IS_ERR(trap)) {
+		err = (rqstp->rq_vers == 2) ? nfserr_acces : nfserr_xdev;
+		goto out;
+	}
 	err = fh_fill_pre_attrs(ffhp);
 	if (err != nfs_ok)
 		goto out_unlock;
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/namei.c b/fs/ocfs2/namei.c
index 814733b..9221a33 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/namei.c
@@ -1336,7 +1336,7 @@ static int ocfs2_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
 		goto bail;
 	}
 
-	if (S_ISDIR(old_inode->i_mode)) {
+	if (S_ISDIR(old_inode->i_mode) && new_dir != old_dir) {
 		u64 old_inode_parent;
 
 		update_dot_dot = 1;
@@ -1353,8 +1353,7 @@ static int ocfs2_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
 			goto bail;
 		}
 
-		if (!new_inode && new_dir != old_dir &&
-		    new_dir->i_nlink >= ocfs2_link_max(osb)) {
+		if (!new_inode && new_dir->i_nlink >= ocfs2_link_max(osb)) {
 			status = -EMLINK;
 			goto bail;
 		}
@@ -1601,6 +1600,9 @@ static int ocfs2_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
 			mlog_errno(status);
 			goto bail;
 		}
+	}
+
+	if (S_ISDIR(old_inode->i_mode)) {
 		drop_nlink(old_dir);
 		if (new_inode) {
 			drop_nlink(new_inode);
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
index 696478f..b8e25ca 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
@@ -744,7 +744,7 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_workdir(struct ovl_copy_up_ctx *c)
 	struct inode *inode;
 	struct inode *udir = d_inode(c->destdir), *wdir = d_inode(c->workdir);
 	struct path path = { .mnt = ovl_upper_mnt(ofs) };
-	struct dentry *temp, *upper;
+	struct dentry *temp, *upper, *trap;
 	struct ovl_cu_creds cc;
 	int err;
 	struct ovl_cattr cattr = {
@@ -781,11 +781,13 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_workdir(struct ovl_copy_up_ctx *c)
 	 * temp wasn't moved before copy up completion or cleanup.
 	 */
 	ovl_start_write(c->dentry);
-	if (lock_rename(c->workdir, c->destdir) != NULL ||
-	    temp->d_parent != c->workdir) {
+	trap = lock_rename(c->workdir, c->destdir);
+	if (trap || temp->d_parent != c->workdir) {
 		/* temp or workdir moved underneath us? abort without cleanup */
 		dput(temp);
 		err = -EIO;
+		if (IS_ERR(trap))
+			goto out;
 		goto unlock;
 	} else if (err) {
 		goto cleanup;
@@ -826,6 +828,7 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_workdir(struct ovl_copy_up_ctx *c)
 		ovl_set_flag(OVL_WHITEOUTS, inode);
 unlock:
 	unlock_rename(c->workdir, c->destdir);
+out:
 	ovl_end_write(c->dentry);
 
 	return err;
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
index aab3f5d..0f8b4a7 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
@@ -1180,6 +1180,10 @@ static int ovl_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *olddir,
 	}
 
 	trap = lock_rename(new_upperdir, old_upperdir);
+	if (IS_ERR(trap)) {
+		err = PTR_ERR(trap);
+		goto out_revert_creds;
+	}
 
 	olddentry = ovl_lookup_upper(ofs, old->d_name.name, old_upperdir,
 				     old->d_name.len);
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
index 0bbbe48..4ab66e3 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -439,8 +439,10 @@ static bool ovl_workdir_ok(struct dentry *workdir, struct dentry *upperdir)
 	bool ok = false;
 
 	if (workdir != upperdir) {
-		ok = (lock_rename(workdir, upperdir) == NULL);
-		unlock_rename(workdir, upperdir);
+		struct dentry *trap = lock_rename(workdir, upperdir);
+		if (!IS_ERR(trap))
+			unlock_rename(workdir, upperdir);
+		ok = (trap == NULL);
 	}
 	return ok;
 }
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/util.c b/fs/overlayfs/util.c
index 22b5197..0217094 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/util.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/util.c
@@ -1198,12 +1198,17 @@ void ovl_nlink_end(struct dentry *dentry)
 
 int ovl_lock_rename_workdir(struct dentry *workdir, struct dentry *upperdir)
 {
+	struct dentry *trap;
+
 	/* Workdir should not be the same as upperdir */
 	if (workdir == upperdir)
 		goto err;
 
 	/* Workdir should not be subdir of upperdir and vice versa */
-	if (lock_rename(workdir, upperdir) != NULL)
+	trap = lock_rename(workdir, upperdir);
+	if (IS_ERR(trap))
+		goto err;
+	if (trap)
 		goto err_unlock;
 
 	return 0;
diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/namei.c b/fs/reiserfs/namei.c
index 994d6e6..5996197 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/namei.c
@@ -1324,8 +1324,8 @@ static int reiserfs_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
 	struct inode *old_inode, *new_dentry_inode;
 	struct reiserfs_transaction_handle th;
 	int jbegin_count;
-	umode_t old_inode_mode;
 	unsigned long savelink = 1;
+	bool update_dir_parent = false;
 
 	if (flags & ~RENAME_NOREPLACE)
 		return -EINVAL;
@@ -1375,8 +1375,7 @@ static int reiserfs_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
 		return -ENOENT;
 	}
 
-	old_inode_mode = old_inode->i_mode;
-	if (S_ISDIR(old_inode_mode)) {
+	if (S_ISDIR(old_inode->i_mode)) {
 		/*
 		 * make sure that directory being renamed has correct ".."
 		 * and that its new parent directory has not too many links
@@ -1389,24 +1388,28 @@ static int reiserfs_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
 			}
 		}
 
-		/*
-		 * directory is renamed, its parent directory will be changed,
-		 * so find ".." entry
-		 */
-		dot_dot_de.de_gen_number_bit_string = NULL;
-		retval =
-		    reiserfs_find_entry(old_inode, "..", 2, &dot_dot_entry_path,
+		if (old_dir != new_dir) {
+			/*
+			 * directory is renamed, its parent directory will be
+			 * changed, so find ".." entry
+			 */
+			dot_dot_de.de_gen_number_bit_string = NULL;
+			retval =
+			    reiserfs_find_entry(old_inode, "..", 2,
+					&dot_dot_entry_path,
 					&dot_dot_de);
-		pathrelse(&dot_dot_entry_path);
-		if (retval != NAME_FOUND) {
-			reiserfs_write_unlock(old_dir->i_sb);
-			return -EIO;
-		}
+			pathrelse(&dot_dot_entry_path);
+			if (retval != NAME_FOUND) {
+				reiserfs_write_unlock(old_dir->i_sb);
+				return -EIO;
+			}
 
-		/* inode number of .. must equal old_dir->i_ino */
-		if (dot_dot_de.de_objectid != old_dir->i_ino) {
-			reiserfs_write_unlock(old_dir->i_sb);
-			return -EIO;
+			/* inode number of .. must equal old_dir->i_ino */
+			if (dot_dot_de.de_objectid != old_dir->i_ino) {
+				reiserfs_write_unlock(old_dir->i_sb);
+				return -EIO;
+			}
+			update_dir_parent = true;
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -1486,7 +1489,7 @@ static int reiserfs_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
 
 		reiserfs_prepare_for_journal(old_inode->i_sb, new_de.de_bh, 1);
 
-		if (S_ISDIR(old_inode->i_mode)) {
+		if (update_dir_parent) {
 			if ((retval =
 			     search_by_entry_key(new_dir->i_sb,
 						 &dot_dot_de.de_entry_key,
@@ -1534,14 +1537,14 @@ static int reiserfs_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
 							 new_de.de_bh);
 			reiserfs_restore_prepared_buffer(old_inode->i_sb,
 							 old_de.de_bh);
-			if (S_ISDIR(old_inode_mode))
+			if (update_dir_parent)
 				reiserfs_restore_prepared_buffer(old_inode->
 								 i_sb,
 								 dot_dot_de.
 								 de_bh);
 			continue;
 		}
-		if (S_ISDIR(old_inode_mode)) {
+		if (update_dir_parent) {
 			if (item_moved(&dot_dot_ih, &dot_dot_entry_path) ||
 			    !entry_points_to_object("..", 2, &dot_dot_de,
 						    old_dir)) {
@@ -1559,7 +1562,7 @@ static int reiserfs_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
 			}
 		}
 
-		RFALSE(S_ISDIR(old_inode_mode) &&
+		RFALSE(update_dir_parent &&
 		       !buffer_journal_prepared(dot_dot_de.de_bh), "");
 
 		break;
@@ -1592,11 +1595,12 @@ static int reiserfs_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
 		savelink = new_dentry_inode->i_nlink;
 	}
 
-	if (S_ISDIR(old_inode_mode)) {
+	if (update_dir_parent) {
 		/* adjust ".." of renamed directory */
 		set_ino_in_dir_entry(&dot_dot_de, INODE_PKEY(new_dir));
 		journal_mark_dirty(&th, dot_dot_de.de_bh);
-
+	}
+	if (S_ISDIR(old_inode->i_mode)) {
 		/*
 		 * there (in new_dir) was no directory, so it got new link
 		 * (".."  of renamed directory)
diff --git a/fs/smb/server/vfs.c b/fs/smb/server/vfs.c
index 4277750..b6904a9 100644
--- a/fs/smb/server/vfs.c
+++ b/fs/smb/server/vfs.c
@@ -715,6 +715,10 @@ retry:
 		goto out2;
 
 	trap = lock_rename_child(old_child, new_path.dentry);
+	if (IS_ERR(trap)) {
+		err = PTR_ERR(trap);
+		goto out_drop_write;
+	}
 
 	old_parent = dget(old_child->d_parent);
 	if (d_unhashed(old_child)) {
@@ -777,6 +781,7 @@ out4:
 out3:
 	dput(old_parent);
 	unlock_rename(old_parent, new_path.dentry);
+out_drop_write:
 	mnt_drop_write(old_path->mnt);
 out2:
 	path_put(&new_path);
diff --git a/fs/udf/namei.c b/fs/udf/namei.c
index 3508ac4..fac806a 100644
--- a/fs/udf/namei.c
+++ b/fs/udf/namei.c
@@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ static int udf_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *old_dir,
 	struct inode *old_inode = d_inode(old_dentry);
 	struct inode *new_inode = d_inode(new_dentry);
 	struct udf_fileident_iter oiter, niter, diriter;
-	bool has_diriter = false;
+	bool has_diriter = false, is_dir = false;
 	int retval;
 	struct kernel_lb_addr tloc;
 
@@ -789,6 +789,9 @@ static int udf_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *old_dir,
 			if (!empty_dir(new_inode))
 				goto out_oiter;
 		}
+		is_dir = true;
+	}
+	if (is_dir && old_dir != new_dir) {
 		retval = udf_fiiter_find_entry(old_inode, &dotdot_name,
 					       &diriter);
 		if (retval == -ENOENT) {
@@ -878,7 +881,9 @@ static int udf_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *old_dir,
 			       udf_dir_entry_len(&diriter.fi));
 		udf_fiiter_write_fi(&diriter, NULL);
 		udf_fiiter_release(&diriter);
+	}
 
+	if (is_dir) {
 		inode_dec_link_count(old_dir);
 		if (new_inode)
 			inode_dec_link_count(new_inode);