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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	"Chandramouleeswaran, Aswin" <aswin@hp.com>,
	"Norton, Scott J" <scott.norton@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 24/25] sunrpc: Change how dentry's d_lock field is accessed
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 05:20:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130704042034.GM4165@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1372883132-23410-1-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com>

On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 04:25:32PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> There is no change in logic and everything should just work.

> -		spin_lock(&file->f_path.dentry->d_lock);
> +		d_lock(file->f_path.dentry);
>  		if (!d_unhashed(file->f_path.dentry))
>  			clnt = RPC_I(inode)->private;
>  		if (clnt != NULL && atomic_inc_not_zero(&clnt->cl_count)) {
> -			spin_unlock(&file->f_path.dentry->d_lock);
> +			d_unlock(file->f_path.dentry);

Could somebody explain WTF is being protected here?  It's not ->private -
that gets set (and, more importantly, cleared) without ->d_lock in sight.
Trond, that seems to be your code from about three years ago (introduced
in "SUNRPC: Fix a race in rpc_info_open").  What's going on there?

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-04  4:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-03 20:25 [PATCH v3 24/25] sunrpc: Change how dentry's d_lock field is accessed Waiman Long
2013-07-04  4:20 ` Al Viro [this message]
2013-07-08 16:53   ` Myklebust, Trond

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