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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>2010-10-10 05:36:21 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2010-10-25 21:26:12 -0400
commitbe148247cfbe2422f5709e77d9c3e10b8a6394da (patch)
treef04605bb5ea21cefd455b6fd81c51d8bb02c1521 /fs/dcache.c
parent85fe4025c616a7c0ed07bc2fc8c5371b07f3888c (diff)
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fs: take dcache_lock inside __d_path
All callers take dcache_lock just around the call to __d_path, so take the lock into it in preparation of getting rid of dcache_lock. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/dcache.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/dcache.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 83293be48149..54f93f5e6b0f 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -1994,7 +1994,7 @@ global_root:
* Returns a pointer into the buffer or an error code if the
* path was too long.
*
- * "buflen" should be positive. Caller holds the dcache_lock.
+ * "buflen" should be positive.
*
* If path is not reachable from the supplied root, then the value of
* root is changed (without modifying refcounts).
@@ -2006,10 +2006,12 @@ char *__d_path(const struct path *path, struct path *root,
int error;
prepend(&res, &buflen, "\0", 1);
+ spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
error = prepend_path(path, root, &res, &buflen);
+ spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
+
if (error)
return ERR_PTR(error);
-
return res;
}