Re: processes hung after sys_renameat, and 'missing' processes

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 02:29:00AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
 > On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 09:19:15PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 05:42:35PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
 > > 
 > >  > So Al meant you to test mutex_is_locked(dentry->d_inode->i_mutex) of
 > >  > the parents.
 > > 
 > > ok, I ended up with..
 > > 
 > >         WARN_ON_ONCE(!mutex_is_locked(&target->d_parent->d_inode->i_mutex));
 > > 
 > >         if (dentry->d_parent != NULL)
 > 			       != dentry)
 > 
 > ->d_parent *never* should be NULL; when dentry is disconnected from the
 > tree (or hadn't been connected to it yet), it points to that dentry itself.

ah, thanks. My VFS ignorance showing there.

	Dave
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