Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Nov 2002 17:47:40 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix bug in ext3 htree rename: doesn't delete old name, leaves ino with bad nlink |
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On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> We take the BKL, yes; but if we need to sleep waiting for a block to > be read in, that's when another process can run. Yes, that means > another process could end up deleting the entry out from under us --- > or make some other change to the directory. I was actually quite > nervous about this, so I spent some time auditing the code paths of > when do_split() might sleep, to make sure it would never leave the > directory in an unstable condition.
HUH?
->rename() holds ->i_sem on both directories. So do all other directory methods. What the hell is going on there?
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