From 1a88b5364b535edaa321d70a566e358390ff0872 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:38:12 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Fix incomplete __mntput locking Getting this wrong caused WARNING: at fs/namespace.c:636 mntput_no_expire+0xac/0xf2() due to optimistically checking cpu_writer->mnt outside the spinlock. Here's what we really want: * we know that nobody will set cpu_writer->mnt to mnt from now on * all changes to that sucker are done under cpu_writer->lock * we want the laziest equivalent of spin_lock(&cpu_writer->lock); if (likely(cpu_writer->mnt != mnt)) { spin_unlock(&cpu_writer->lock); continue; } /* do stuff */ that would make sure we won't miss earlier setting of ->mnt done by another CPU. Anyway, for now we just move the spin_lock() earlier and move the test into the properly locked region. Signed-off-by: Al Viro Reported-and-tested-by: Li Zefan Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed