From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: raven@themaw.net
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] umount after bad chdir
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 16:24:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040414152420.GE31500@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0404142308260.20568@donald.themaw.net>
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 11:13:13PM +0800, raven@themaw.net wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 raven@themaw.net wrote:
>
> > > Mind you, chdir() patch in -mm is broken in a lot of other ways - e.g.
> > > it assumes that another thread sharing ->fs with us won't call chdir()
> > > in the wrong moment...
> >
> > Thanks for your interest Al.
> >
> > I see your point (I think).
> >
> > If I understand you correctly (please explain if I don't) I need to lock
> > the ->fs struct.
>
> Mmm ... doesn't look much good in the light of Als comment.
>
> Looks like it's not possible to take the lock for long enough even if I
> could.
>
> Lets have some comments, criticisms or suggestions please.
Why do you need to assign pwd before revalidation?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-14 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-14 11:43 Hugh Dickins
2004-04-14 12:12 ` raven
2004-04-14 12:10 ` viro
2004-04-14 12:31 ` raven
2004-04-14 15:13 ` raven
2004-04-14 15:24 ` viro [this message]
2004-04-14 16:29 ` raven
2004-04-14 16:48 ` raven
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