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DateThu, 16 Jan 2003 19:07:22 +0300
FromOleg Drokin <>
SubjectRe: [2.4] VFS locking problem during concurrent link/unlink
Hello!

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 11:02:08AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
> > Yes we do.
> > But on the other hand I've put a check at the beginning of reiserfs_link
> > and I am still seeing these links on inodes with i_nlink == 0.
> That's because we don't inc the link count in reiserfs_link before we
> schedule.  The bug works a little like this:
> link count at 1
> reiserfs_link: make new directory entry for link, schedule()
> reiserfs_unlink: dec link count to zero, remove file stat data
> reiserfs_link: inc link count, return thinking the stat data is still
> there

That was my original yesterday's assumption.
But debug prints I put in place did not confirmed it.
Also if we are having a dentry pinned in memory (by sys_link), inode should not
be deleted, so the statdata should stay inplace as Nikita argues.

Bye,
    Oleg
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