On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 03:28:58PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> From: "J. Bruce Fields"
>
> d_splice_alias will d_move an IS_ROOT() directory dentry into place if
> one exists. This should be safe as long as the dentry remains IS_ROOT,
> but I can't see what guarantees that: once we drop the
From: "J. Bruce Fields"
d_splice_alias will d_move an IS_ROOT() directory dentry into place if
one exists. This should be safe as long as the dentry remains IS_ROOT,
but I can't see what guarantees that: once we drop the i_lock all we
hold here is the i_mutex on an unrelated parent directory.
I
