From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] replace inode_update_time with file_update_time
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 23:57:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051031225705.GA20411@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051031145419.68938e63.akpm@osdl.org>
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 02:54:19PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> >
> > struct timespec now;
> > ...
> > + inode->i_ctime = now;
>
> hm, that nonatomic assignment is racy wrt readers and, conceivably, other
> writers.
this function is always called under i_sem
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-31 22:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-29 16:52 [PATCH] replace inode_update_time with file_update_time Christoph Hellwig
2005-10-31 22:54 ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-31 22:57 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-11-07 21:40 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-11-07 21:52 ` Shaya Potter
2005-11-07 22:02 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-11-07 22:10 ` Shaya Potter
2005-11-07 22:13 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-11-08 4:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-11-08 9:52 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-11-08 4:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-11-08 9:50 ` Anton Altaparmakov
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