* [PATCH] fs: update outdated documentation about i_mutex lock.
@ 2022-02-12 14:53 Niels Dossche
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From: Niels Dossche @ 2022-02-12 14:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alexander Viro; +Cc: linux-kernel, trivial, linux-fsdevel
This field was renamed from i_mutex to i_rwsem and now resides in d_inode.
Signed-off-by: Niels Dossche <niels.dossche@ugent.be>
---
fs/namei.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 3f1829b3ab5b..abf454f12365 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2692,7 +2692,7 @@ static int lookup_one_common(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns,
* Note that this routine is purely a helper for filesystem usage and should
* not be called by generic code.
*
- * The caller must hold base->i_mutex.
+ * The caller must hold base->d_inode->i_rwsem.
*/
struct dentry *try_lookup_one_len(const char *name, struct dentry *base, int len)
{
--
2.34.1
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