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authorJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2012-04-12 13:49:28 -0400
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2012-04-12 13:49:28 -0400
commit8065248069097dddf9945acfb2081025e9618c16 (patch)
treeeddf3fb0372ba0f65c01382d386942ea8d18932d /fs/dcache.c
parente66a8ddff72e85605f2212a0ebc666c7e9116641 (diff)
parentb4838d12e1f3cb48c2489a0b08733b5dbf848297 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/dcache.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/dcache.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index e9a07b2a094..b60ddc41d78 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -2404,6 +2404,7 @@ struct dentry *d_materialise_unique(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode)
if (d_ancestor(alias, dentry)) {
/* Check for loops */
actual = ERR_PTR(-ELOOP);
+ spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
} else if (IS_ROOT(alias)) {
/* Is this an anonymous mountpoint that we
* could splice into our tree? */
@@ -2413,7 +2414,7 @@ struct dentry *d_materialise_unique(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode)
goto found;
} else {
/* Nope, but we must(!) avoid directory
- * aliasing */
+ * aliasing. This drops inode->i_lock */
actual = __d_unalias(inode, dentry, alias);
}
write_sequnlock(&rename_lock);