Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix races in ext4_sync_parent()

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On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 09:13:12PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> +	inode = igrab(inode);
> +	while (ext4_test_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_NEWENTRY)) {
>  		ext4_clear_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_NEWENTRY);
> -		dentry = list_entry(inode->i_dentry.next,
> -				    struct dentry, d_alias);
> -		if (!dentry || !dentry->d_parent || !dentry->d_parent->d_inode)
> +		dentry = list_first_entry(&inode->i_dentry,
> +					  struct dentry, d_alias);

... and what if you don't have a dentry for that inode anymore?

> +		next = igrab(dentry->d_parent->d_inode);

what protects you against rename() (OK, d_mode()) here?
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