cpuset: fix cpuset_print_task_mems_allowed() vs rename() race
authorLi Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Fri, 25 Jan 2013 08:08:01 +0000 (16:08 +0800)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 6 Mar 2013 03:24:02 +0000 (03:24 +0000)
commit 63f43f55c9bbc14f76b582644019b8a07dc8219a upstream.

rename() will change dentry->d_name. The result of this race can
be worse than seeing partially rewritten name, but we might access
a stale pointer because rename() will re-allocate memory to hold
a longer name.

It's safe in the protection of dentry->d_lock.

v2: check NULL dentry before acquiring dentry lock.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

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