Re: Linux 3.15 .. and continuation of merge window

[J. R. Okajima]

Al Viro:
> The former guarantees that the address we are doing trylock on would be that
> of a live dentry.  The latter makes sure that anything assigned to 
> dentry->d_parent after we drop ->d_lock will not be freed until we drop
> rcu_read_lock.

Although I don't know how to reproduce the problem for the latter case,
I think the patch is good.


J. R. Okajima
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