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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] fat: add mutex lock to fat_build_inode
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:49:36 -0700
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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?