Re: [CHECKER] 16 potential locking bugs in 2.4.1

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Tue, 20 Mar 2001 11:16:04 -0300 (BRST)


On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Friday March 16, acc@CS.Stanford.EDU wrote:

> > | 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.

Sounds like a "bug waiting to be implemented" ;)

Rik

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