Re: [RFC][PATCH] devpts: Must release s_umount on error

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sun Feb 01 2009 - 11:33:30 EST


On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:33:30PM -0800, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
>
> From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:57:12 -0800
> Subject: [RFC][PATCH] devpts: Must release s_umount on error
>
> We should drop the ->s_umount mutex if an error occurs after the
> sget()/grab_super() call. This was introduced when adding support
> for multiple instances of devpts and noticed during a code review/reorg.

Looks good and should probably be submitted for 2.6.29.

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