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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-04-10 22:30:45 +0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-04-10 22:30:45 +0400
commit06eb4eafbdc0796d741d139a44f1253278da8611 (patch)
treefbdb44317130c371928154c9e6903e699fe2b995 /fs/dcache.c
parent32ed53b83ea5ec26a4dba90e18f5e0ff6c71eb48 (diff)
parentf68e556e23d1a4176b563bcb25d8baf2c5313f91 (diff)
downloadlinux-06eb4eafbdc0796d741d139a44f1253278da8611.tar.xz
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
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 e9a07b2a0948..b60ddc41d783 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);