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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com>
Cc: hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>,
	Ravishankar N <ravi.n1@samsung.com>,
	Amit Sahrawat <a.sahrawat@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] fat: add mutex lock to fat_build_inode
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:49:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121029164936.2022db6c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1351389223-2628-1-git-send-email-linkinjeon@gmail.com>

On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 10:53:43 +0900
Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
> 
> fat_nfs_get_inode does not hold i_mutex of parent directory.So add
> lock to fat_build_inode.

Well..  why?  Presumably this patch fixes some race.  A good
description of that race would be useful - partly because others may
then be able to suggest alternative ways of fixing that bug.

I'll merge these patches for some testing.

I did merge these patches three weekes ago:

fat-modify-nfs-mount-option.patch
fat-exportfs-rebuild-inode-if-ilookup-fails.patch
fat-exportfs-rebuild-inode-if-ilookup-fails-fix.patch
fat-exportfs-rebuild-directory-inode-if-fat_dget-fails.patch
documentation-update-nfs-option-in-filesystem-vfattxt.patch

But I have no record of Bruce or Ogawa having reviewed/acked them?

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-29 23:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-28  1:53 [PATCH 5/5] fat: add mutex lock to fat_build_inode Namjae Jeon
2012-10-29 23:49 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-10-30  4:24   ` Namjae Jeon
2012-10-31  0:46     ` OGAWA Hirofumi

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