linux-kernel - Re: [patch 3/8] Make d_path() consistent across mount operations

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Date:	Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:38:35 +0200
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	hch@...radead.org
CC:	miklos@...redi.hu, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	hch@...radead.org, viro@...IV.linux.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, agruen@...e.de, jjohansen@...e.de
Subject: Re: [patch 3/8] Make d_path() consistent across mount operations

> > 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.

Miklos
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