Re: [PATCH 2/2][RFC][BUG] msync: updating ctime and mtime atsyncing

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 10:36 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 03:44 +0300, Anton Salikhmetov wrote:
> 
> > +/*
> > + * Update the ctime and mtime stamps after checking if they are to be updated.
> > + */
> > +void mapped_file_update_time(struct file *file)
> > +{
> > +	if (test_and_clear_bit(AS_MCTIME, &file->f_mapping->flags)) {
> > +		get_file(file);
> > +		file_update_time(file);
> > +		fput(file);
> > +	}
> > +}
> > +
> 
> I don't think you need the get/put file stuff here, because

BTW, the reason for me noticing this is that if it would be needed there
is a race condition right there, who is to say that the file pointer
you're deref'ing in your test condition isn't a dead one already.

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