On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:08:11AM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
> > >>
> > >>               spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
> > >>
> > >>               len += 3;
> > >
> > > there is no need to take the d_lock here.
> > OK. Will remove it. It was done at fs/ocfs2/export.c. So probably i
> > thought it was necessary.
> > 
> > <snip>
> >
> 
> Ahh see this is where me not being familiar with NFS gets me in trouble, you 
> do
> need the d_lock in that case.  Sorry about that.

It's not really about nfs, dereferencing ->d_parent needs d_lock.

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Reply via email to