I believe the bug was introduced by this change set (about 9 weeks ago):
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/diffs/fs/namei.c@1.63.1.2
--david
===== fs/namei.c 1.69 vs edited =====
--- 1.69/fs/namei.c Wed Apr 2 22:51:31 2003
+++ edited/fs/namei.c Wed Apr 16 10:18:40 2003
@@ -847,6 +847,7 @@
read_unlock(¤t->fs->lock);
if (__emul_lookup_dentry(name,nd))
return 0;
+ read_lock(¤t->fs->lock);
}
nd->mnt = mntget(current->fs->rootmnt);
nd->dentry = dget(current->fs->root);
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