Re: [PATCH] [nfs] Release dentry_lock in an error path of nfs_path

From: Trond Myklebust
Date: Tue Jul 25 2006 - 13:18:18 EST


On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 16:30 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> In one of the error paths of nfs_path, it may return with dentry_lock still
> held; fix this by adding and using a new error path Elong_unlock which unlocks
> dentry_lock.
>
> Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to the NFS git tree... Thanks!

Trond

> ---
> fs/nfs/namespace.c | 4 +++-
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/nfs/namespace.c b/fs/nfs/namespace.c
> index 19b98ca..86b3169 100644
> --- a/fs/nfs/namespace.c
> +++ b/fs/nfs/namespace.c
> @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ char *nfs_path(const char *base, const s
> namelen = dentry->d_name.len;
> buflen -= namelen + 1;
> if (buflen < 0)
> - goto Elong;
> + goto Elong_unlock;
> end -= namelen;
> memcpy(end, dentry->d_name.name, namelen);
> *--end = '/';
> @@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ char *nfs_path(const char *base, const s
> end -= namelen;
> memcpy(end, base, namelen);
> return end;
> +Elong_unlock:
> + spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
> Elong:
> return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
> }
>
>

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