Re: VFS deadlock ?

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Mar 21 2013 - 17:57:35 EST


On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 02:47:06PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>> It will also end up giving you
>> the information about whether the dentry is unlinked or not.
>
> You also want to know if p2 is unlinked, though (and yes, it's dentry_path(),
> of course - apologies for the braino).

Just do dentry_path on both p1 and p2. You'll have to have two
different buffers for them, of course.

Linus
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