linux-kernel - Re: [patch 01/15] ecryptfs: clean up (un)lock

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Message-ID: <20080505105914.GA20910@infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 5 May 2008 06:59:14 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, hch@...radead.org,
	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 01/15] ecryptfs: clean up (un)lock_parent

On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 11:54:42AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>
> 
> dget(dentry->d_parent) --> dget_parent(dentry)
> 
> unlock_parent() is racy and unnecessary.  Replace single caller with
> unlock_dir().
> 
> There are several other suspect uses of ->d_parent in ecryptfs...

Looks good an the first hunk is an obvious fix.  Should probably go into
.26

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