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    DateMon, 24 Mar 2008 09:34:36 +0000
    FromAl Viro <>
    SubjectRe: [patch 3/6] vfs: mountinfo stable peer group id
    On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 01:19:41AM -0700, Ram Pai wrote:
    > > 	* in do_change_type(), outside of vfsmount_lock, do invent_group_ids()
    > > If it fails - bugger off, if not - proceed as now.
    > 
    > Has it to be done outside vfsmount_lock?  AFAICT, invent_group_ids()
    > does not sleep, nor does change_mnt_propagation().
    
    It does allocation.  And no, GFP_ATOMIC is not appropriate for that.
    The same goes for mount IDs, BTW, and there we _also_ don't need
    vfsmount_lock - see my current tree, there we have clone_mnt()
    serialized by namespace_sem in all cases.
    
    > > 	* in attach_recursive_mnt() if IS_MNT_SHARED(dest_mnt) do
    > > invent_group_ids() on the dest_mnt immediately and if it fails do
    > 
    > I think you meant, invent_group_ids() on the source_mnt.
    Yes
    
    > But again
    > applying invent_group_ids() on the source_mnt has to be done carefully,
    > because, source_mnt may have been shared to begin with.
    
    And?  See the original posting - invent_group_ids() skips the vfsmounts
    with already set group ID.
    
    
    
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