> > The path that __d_path() computes can become slightly inconsistent when it
quoted text
> > races with mount operations: it grabs the vfsmount_lock when traversing mount
> > points but immediately drops it again, only to re-grab it when it reaches the
> > next mount point.  The result is that the filename computed is not always
> > consisent, and the file may never have had that name. (This is unlikely, but
> > still possible.)
> > 
> > Fix this by grabbing the vfsmount_lock for the whole duration of
> > __d_path().
> 
> Looks good, and lock holding times shouldn't be a problem either.

Thanks for the review of this batch.

Can you please in the future either explicitly ACK or NACK?  Because I
really wouldn't want any more of this "Looks good, but bla bla bla"
and then NACKing the patch when I send it off to Andrew.

Miklos
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