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From: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: menage@google.com, Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>,
	svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix for bad lock balance in Containers
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:08:15 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070627063815.GA3488@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070626050011.GA12584@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 10:30:11AM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote:
> 
> --- linux-2.6.22-rc4/kernel/container.c	2007-06-13 15:38:32.000000000 +0530
> +++ old/kernel/container.c	2007-06-25 00:55:03.000000000 +0530
> @@ -995,6 +995,7 @@ static int container_get_sb(struct file_
>  		BUG_ON(ret);
>  	} else {
>  		/* Reuse the existing superblock */
> +		down_write(&(root->sb->umount));
>  		ret = simple_set_mnt(mnt, root->sb);
>  		if (!ret)
>  			atomic_inc(&root->sb->s_active);

Do you want to change this to first take refererence on sb and then
do simple_set_mnt() ?

And btw, simple_set_mnt() always returns zero and looks like it can't fail.

Regards,
Bharata.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-27  6:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-26  5:00 [PATCH] Fix for bad lock balance in Containers Dhaval Giani
2007-06-27  6:38 ` Bharata B Rao [this message]
2007-06-27  7:34 ` Dhaval Giani
2007-06-28 23:09 ` Paul Menage

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