Re: [PATCH 02/11] vfs: More precise tests in d_invalidate

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> the whole check_submounts_and_drop thing walks the parent chain and
> locks each parent with the renamelock held for writing.

Oops, my bad about the write lock, brainfart due to grepping and
reading the wrong context...

check_submounts_and_drop() doesn't do the parent walk with the rename
lock held for writing, it just holds it for reading.

But it does do that very complex "walk parents and check all siblings"
and locks them, so the rest of the commentary was correct.

                Linus
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