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 -- 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/
