2011/8/31 Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>: > I think you need to make sure you're holding the i_mutex of the parent > for this. Most of these sorts of dentry operations require it. > In the case of this patch, we can have a negative parent - so, can't hold i_mutex here. It seems to me that we need extra cifs mutex for dealing this it. -- Best regards, Pavel Shilovsky. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html