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From: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: jeremy@goop.org, dick.streefland@xs4all.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] autofs4 doesn't expire
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:08:07 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030806053807.GC1298@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030805220848.3ee1111a.akpm@osdl.org>

On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 10:08:48PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> >  +	if (vfs) {
> >  +		if (is_vfsmnt_tree_busy(vfs))
> >  +			ret--;
> >  +		/* just to reduce ref count taken in lookup_mnt
> >  +	 	 * cannot call mntput() here
> >  +	 	 */
> >  +		atomic_dec(&vfs->mnt_count);
> >  +	}
> 
> Doesn't work, does it?  If someone else does a mntput() just beforehand,
> __mntput() never gets run.
> 

no.. it will not work. looks like we have to unlock and lock dcache_lock and
use mntput as I did earlier. But I think, it will be really nice if Jermey
can revisit is_tree_busy() code.

There can be other problems like the checking d_count for dentries under
dcache_lock(). As users can do dget() or dput() manipulating d_count without
dcache_lock(). 

Maneesh

-- 
Maneesh Soni
IBM Linux Technology Center, 
IBM India Software Lab, Bangalore.
Phone: +91-80-5044999 email: maneesh@in.ibm.com
http://lse.sourceforge.net/

      reply	other threads:[~2003-08-06  5:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-05 22:16 [PATCH] autofs4 doesn't expire Dick Streefland
2003-08-05 23:49 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-06  0:03   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2003-08-06  4:28   ` Maneesh Soni
2003-08-06  4:34     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2003-08-06  5:00       ` Maneesh Soni
2003-08-06  5:01         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2003-08-06  5:08         ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-06  5:38           ` Maneesh Soni [this message]

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