Re: Linux 2.6.26-rc4

[Ian Kent]

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.

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