Re: [CHECKER] 16 potential locking bugs in 2.4.1

Neil Brown (neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au)
Tue, 20 Mar 2001 16:33:17 +1100 (EST)


On Friday March 16, acc@CS.Stanford.EDU wrote:
> Here are some more results from the MC project. These are 16 errors found
> in 2.4.1 related to inconsistent use of locks. As usual, if you can
> verify any of these or show that they are false positives, please let us
> know by CC'ing mc@cs.stanford.edu.
>
> -Andy Chou
>
> | fs/nfsd/vfs.c | nfsd_link |
> | fs/nfsd/vfs.c | nfsd_symlink |

These are not actually bugs. The usage of fh_lock is fairly obscure.
The unlock gets done by an fh_put which the caller does after calling
nfsd_link or nfs_symlink.

NeilBrown
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