Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.26-rc4 | From | Ian Kent <> | Date | Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:49:22 +0800 |
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On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 18:50 +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 01:41:32AM +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > > > OK, I'll need to look at vfs_readdir(). > > I thought vfs_readdir() would take the containing directory mutex as > > does ->lookup(). > > vfs_readdir() takes i_mutex on directory it reads. I.e. on the victim > in this case. lookup has i_mutex on directory it does lookup in, i.e. > root in this case...
Hahaha, yes, I'll need to go back and re-read that bit of code, sorry.
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