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SubjectRe: [PATCH 15/13] sysfs: Protect sysfs_refresh_inode with inode mutex.
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> writes:

> Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com):
>>
>> In general everything that writes to vfs inodes holds the
>> inode mutex, so hold the inode mutex over sysfs_refresh_inode.
>> The sysfs data structures don't need this but it looks like the
>> vfs might.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
>
> Oh right so pls disregard my last reply to patch 9 :)

I also checked and nfs has the same basic structure and does take the
inode mutex on these paths, inside of nfs_refresh_inode which is
called from __nfs_revalidate_inode.

So it is definitely the consistent thing to do.

Eric


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