Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Nov 2013 00:49:16 -0800 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [REVIEW][PATCH 1/4] vfs: Don't allow overwriting mounts in the current mount namespace |
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On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 02:17:31PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Read what you've written a few lines above. The part about target->i_mutex > > being held. > > That works for the rename as unlink case but we don't hold > old_dentry->d_inode->i_mutex which is what is needed to prevent a mount > on the dentry we are renaming.
It will be held in 3.13.
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