Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:59:55 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [git pull] vfs and fs fixes |
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On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 09:33:06AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 9:22 AM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
> In fact I don't think you need even that much. Just a simple > > touch a > ln a b > mv a b > > looks like it should deadlock on itself, no? source and dest inodes > will be the same, so the mutex_lock() will just deadlock without even > any ABBA race.
No, this one will bail out much earlier.
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