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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Josh Triplett <josht@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [nfs] Release dentry_lock in an error path of nfs_path
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:20:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1153848015.5639.17.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1153783800.31581.21.camel@josh-work.beaverton.ibm.com>

On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 16:30 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> In one of the error paths of nfs_path, it may return with dentry_lock still
> held; fix this by adding and using a new error path Elong_unlock which unlocks
> dentry_lock.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>

Applied to the NFS git tree... Thanks!

  Trond

> ---
>  fs/nfs/namespace.c |    4 +++-
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/nfs/namespace.c b/fs/nfs/namespace.c
> index 19b98ca..86b3169 100644
> --- a/fs/nfs/namespace.c
> +++ b/fs/nfs/namespace.c
> @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ char *nfs_path(const char *base, const s
>  		namelen = dentry->d_name.len;
>  		buflen -= namelen + 1;
>  		if (buflen < 0)
> -			goto Elong;
> +			goto Elong_unlock;
>  		end -= namelen;
>  		memcpy(end, dentry->d_name.name, namelen);
>  		*--end = '/';
> @@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ char *nfs_path(const char *base, const s
>  	end -= namelen;
>  	memcpy(end, base, namelen);
>  	return end;
> +Elong_unlock:
> +	spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
>  Elong:
>  	return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
>  }
> 
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-25 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-24 23:30 [PATCH] [nfs] Release dentry_lock in an error path of nfs_path Josh Triplett
2006-07-25 17:20 ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2006-07-27 18:06   ` [PATCH v2] nfs: Release dcache_lock " Josh Triplett

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