From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Alexey Dobriyan" Subject: s_vfs_rename_sem and cifs (was Re: Possible deadlock in vfs layer, namei.c) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 03:47:50 -0800 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from nproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.182.192]:62473 "EHLO nproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932426AbWCBLrw convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 06:47:52 -0500 Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id m18so274530nfc for ; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 03:47:51 -0800 (PST) To: "Al Viro" Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 06:46:42PM -0800, Joshua Hudson wrote: > from namei.c (function: lock_rename), rename takes: > 1. s_vfs_rename_sem, Speaking of s_vfs_rename_sem, does cifs usage of it despite explicit warning at fs.h was found to be legal?