Re: [PATCH] umount after bad chdir

[viro]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 11:13:13PM +0800, raven@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 raven@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > > Mind you, chdir() patch in -mm is broken in a lot of other ways - e.g.
> > > it assumes that another thread sharing ->fs with us won't call chdir()
> > > in the wrong moment...
> > 
> > Thanks for your interest Al.
> > 
> > I see your point (I think).
> > 
> > If I understand you correctly (please explain if I don't) I need to lock 
> > the ->fs struct.
> 
> Mmm ... doesn't look much good in the light of Als comment.
> 
> Looks like it's not possible to take the lock for long enough even if I 
> could.
> 
> Lets have some comments, criticisms or suggestions please.

Why do you need to assign pwd before revalidation?
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