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From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: maneesh@in.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	mochel@osdl.org, dipankar@in.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs_remove_dir Vs dcache_readdir race fix
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 18:44:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031120184439.GF24159@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031120071709.0acf35aa.akpm@osdl.org>

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 07:17:09AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Seems to me that the libfs code is fragile.
> 
> What happens if the dentry at filp->f_private_data gets moved to a
> different directory after someone did dcache_dir_open()?  Does the loop
> in dcache_readdir() go infinite again?

Can't happen - it's not hashed and not attached to any inode.  IOW, there's
no way to find that animal, let alone pass it to d_move().

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-20 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-20  5:47 Maneesh Soni
2003-11-20  5:49 ` viro
2003-11-20  5:56   ` Maneesh Soni
2003-11-20 10:25     ` Maneesh Soni
2003-11-20 15:17       ` Andrew Morton
2003-11-20 16:40         ` Dipankar Sarma
2003-11-20 18:44         ` viro [this message]
2003-11-20 18:43       ` viro

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