Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Jun 2008 01:55:48 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [patch 3/8] Make d_path() consistent across mount operations |
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On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 10:38:35PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > The path that __d_path() computes can become slightly inconsistent when it > > > races with mount operations: it grabs the vfsmount_lock when traversing mount > > > points but immediately drops it again, only to re-grab it when it reaches the > > > next mount point. The result is that the filename computed is not always > > > consisent, and the file may never have had that name. (This is unlikely, but > > > still possible.) > > > > > > Fix this by grabbing the vfsmount_lock for the whole duration of > > > __d_path(). > > > > Looks good, and lock holding times shouldn't be a problem either. > > Thanks for the review of this batch. > > Can you please in the future either explicitly ACK or NACK? Because I > really wouldn't want any more of this "Looks good, but bla bla bla" > and then NACKing the patch when I send it off to Andrew.
ACK for patches 1-3.
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