Re: processes hung after sys_renameat, and 'missing' processes

From: Al Viro
Date: Wed Jun 06 2012 - 21:29:00 EST


On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 09:19:15PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 05:42:35PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > So Al meant you to test mutex_is_locked(dentry->d_inode->i_mutex) of
> > the parents.
>
> ok, I ended up with..
>
> WARN_ON_ONCE(!mutex_is_locked(&target->d_parent->d_inode->i_mutex));
>
> if (dentry->d_parent != NULL)
!= dentry)

->d_parent *never* should be NULL; when dentry is disconnected from the
tree (or hadn't been connected to it yet), it points to that dentry itself.
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