Re: [RFC][PATCH 23/27] elevate write count over calls to vfs_rename()

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On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 11:29:24AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 19:18 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 05:10:36PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > > +	error = mnt_want_write(oldnd.mnt);
> > >  	if (error)
> > >  		goto exit1;
> > >  
> > > +	error = do_path_lookup(newdfd, newname, LOOKUP_PARENT, &newnd);
> > > +	if (error)
> > > +		goto exit2;
> > > +
> > > +	error = mnt_want_write(oldnd.mnt);
> > 
> > WTF?  Why raise it twice?
> 
> That's a bug.  The second raise should be for newnd.mnt.

No, it should not.  These two should be collapsed into one and done after
we'd checked that vfsmounts are equal
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