Re: [RFC PATCH] kernfs: release kernfs_mutex before the inode allocation

[Tejun Heo]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 05:55:33PM -0800, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > Ah, right, kernfs_node doesn't point back to kernfs_root. I guess it can go
> > one of three ways:
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion, Tejun.
> 
> I found kernfs_root and it seems like to return kernfs_root from kernfs_node.
> If it's true all the case, we would put the rwsem in kernfs_root and change
> would be straightforward. Do you see any problem?

Ah, you're right. I forgot that directory kernfs_node always points to the
root so we need at most one walk up the tree to locate kernfs_root. Yeah,
that should definitely work.

Thanks.

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tejun