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From: Miklos Szeredi on 6 Jul 2010 15:30
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010, David Howells wrote:
> Miklos Szeredi <miklos(a)szeredi.hu> wrote:
>
> > Dentry references should not be acquired without a corresponding
> > vfsmount ref.
>
> Which we have: current->fs holds one. Or is this unsafe due to CLONE_FS?

current->fs doesn't change, but the contents can (e.g. another thread
does chdir()).

Thanks,
Miklos
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From: David Howells on 4 Aug 2010 06:30
Miklos Szeredi <miklos(a)szeredi.hu> wrote:

> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi(a)suse.cz>
>
> Dentry references should not be acquired without a corresponding
> vfsmount ref.
>
> CC: David Howells <dhowells(a)redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi(a)suse.cz>

Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells(a)redhat.com>
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