linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/16] GFS2: File and inode operations

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Date:	Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:06:53 +0100
From:	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Russell Cattelan <cattelan@...hat.com>,
	David Teigland <teigland@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/16] GFS2: File and inode operations

Hi,

On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 14:39 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> > >+static int gfs2_readdir(struct file *file, void *dirent, filldir_t filldir)
> > >+{
> > >+	int error;
> > >+
> > >+	if (strcmp(current->comm, "nfsd") != 0)
> > 
> > Is not there a better way to do this? Note that there is also a "nfsd4" process
> 
> This is in fact not allowed at at all.  Please fix you readdir code not to
> need special cases for nfsd.
> 

This has now been done in the git tree, and I believe that the resulting
lock ordering will be deadlock free,

Steve.


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