On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 01:43:11PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Waiman Long <waiman.l...@hp.com> wrote: > > > > The prepend_path() isn't all due to getcwd. The correct profile should be > > Ugh. I really think that prepend_path() should just be rewritten to > run entirely under RCU. > > Then we can remove *all* the stupid locking, and replace it with doing > a read-lock on the rename sequence count, and repeating if requited. > > That shouldn't even be hard to do, it just requires mindless massaging > and being careful.
Not really. Sure, you'll retry it if you race with d_move(); that's not the real problem - access past the end of the object containing ->d_name.name would screw you and that's what ->d_lock is preventing there. Delayed freeing of what ->d_name is pointing into is fine, but it's not the only way to get hurt there... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
