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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: maneesh@in.ibm.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com, Paul.McKenney@us.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] real_lookup fix
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 02:51:31 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030328025131.3363ef37.akpm@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030328104043.GA1127@in.ibm.com>

Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Here is a patch to use seqlock for real_lookup race with d_lookup as suggested
> by Linus. The race condition can result in duplicate dentry when d_lookup
> fails due concurrent d_move in some unrelated directory. 

I was not aware of this race.  Could you please explain it in more detail?

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-28 10:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-28 10:40 Maneesh Soni
2003-03-28 10:51 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-03-28 11:14   ` Maneesh Soni

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