Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Oct 2005 15:30:13 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] don't invalidate non-directory mountpoints |
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On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 01:13:50PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > d_invalidate allowed a non-directory mountpoint to be invalidated, > which is bad, since the mountpoint becomes unreachable. > > I know it's racy wrt attaching/detaching mount, but AFAICS so is > everything else that unhashes the dentry. This seems to be an > oversight when splitting out vfsmount_lock from dcache_lock. To be > fixed.
NAK. That's a wrong way to deal with the problem and it's much older than vfsmount_lock or dcache_lock (and affects directories too). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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