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

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Date:	Sat, 31 May 2008 04:22:10 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, hch@...radead.org,
	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@...e.de>,
	John Johansen <jjohansen@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/8] Make d_path() consistent across mount operations

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:32:48PM +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.

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