Re: [RFC] vfs: avoid sb->s_umount lock while changing bind-mountflags

From: Al Viro
Date: Mon Sep 30 2013 - 16:03:21 EST


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:13:23AM -0700, Aditya Kali wrote:
> +Ted Ts'o, Tejun Heo, Jens Axboe
>
>
> On 09/30/2013 10:54 AM, Aditya Kali wrote:
> >Hi Al and other fs-developers,
> >
> >Please let me know what you think about this patch.

Don't top-post, please... What prevents a race between MS_BIND remounts
and plain ones? Used to be serialized on ->s_umount, but...
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