"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx): >> >> In general everything that writes to vfs inodes holds the >> inode mutex, so hold the inode mutex over sysfs_refresh_inode. >> The sysfs data structures don't need this but it looks like the >> vfs might. >> >> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Oh right so pls disregard my last reply to patch 9 :) I also checked and nfs has the same basic structure and does take the inode mutex on these paths, inside of nfs_refresh_inode which is called from __nfs_revalidate_inode. So it is definitely the consistent thing to do. Eric -- 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
