Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 May 2009 12:56:27 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: Expand i_mutex to enclose lookup_one_len |
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On Fri, 01 May 2009 12:11:12 -0400 Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> wrote:
> 2.6.30-rc3 introduced some sanity checks in the VFS code to avoid NFS > bugs by ensuring that lookup_one_len is always called under i_mutex. > > This patch expands the i_mutex locking to enclose lookup_one_len. This was > always required, but not not enforced in the reiserfs code since it > does locking around the xattr interactions with the xattr_sem.
cool, so this will fix all those backtraces people have been reporting coming out of the reiserfs xattr code lately?
> This is obvious enough, but it survived an overnight 50 thread ACL test.
That sounds a bit pessimistic. I think I'll s/but/and/ ;)
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