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Message-ID: <4979637E.4070706@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:28:14 +0900
From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs: Take sysfs_mutex when fetching the root inode.
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> sysfs_get_inode ultimately calls sysfs_count_nlink when the a
> directory inode is fectched. sysfs_count_nlink needs to be
> called under the sysfs_mutex to guard against the unlikely
> but possible scenario that the root directory is changing
> as we are counting the number entries in it, and just in
> general to be consistent.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...stanetworks.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Thanks.
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tejun
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