On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 18:50 +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 01:41:32AM +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > > > OK, I'll need to look at vfs_readdir(). > > I thought vfs_readdir() would take the containing directory mutex as > > does ->lookup(). > > vfs_readdir() takes i_mutex on directory it reads. I.e. on the victim > in this case. lookup has i_mutex on directory it does lookup in, i.e. > root in this case... Hahaha, yes, I'll need to go back and re-read that bit of code, sorry. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
