On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 03:09:59PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote: > rename() will change dentry->d_name. The result of this race can > be worse than seeing partially rewritten name, but we might access > a stale pointer because rename() will re-allocate memory to hold > a longer name. > > Use dentry_path_raw(), and this vfs API will take care of lockings. > > Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx> Urgh... why do we even support rename? :( Applying to cgroup/for-3.8-fixes w/ stable cc'd. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
