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| author | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> | 2014-02-17 16:52:33 -0500 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2014-08-07 14:40:10 -0400 |
| commit | d03b29a271eb1d6de5af0f46cf0e7487e9e9284b (patch) | |
| tree | c16cc69c2be7b697cc10772979cf3996c4f3a9e4 /fs/namei.c | |
| parent | b8faf035ea9d0011b04856a8198e2e212d93346a (diff) | |
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namei: trivial fix to vfs_rename_dir comment
Looks like the directory loop check is actually done in renameat?
Whatever, leave this out rather than trying to keep it up to date with
the code.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namei.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/namei.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 8a217c48f6db..a996bb48dfab 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -4024,7 +4024,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(link, const char __user *, oldname, const char __user *, newname * The worst of all namespace operations - renaming directory. "Perverted" * doesn't even start to describe it. Somebody in UCB had a heck of a trip... * Problems: - * a) we can get into loop creation. Check is done in is_subdir(). + * a) we can get into loop creation. * b) race potential - two innocent renames can create a loop together. * That's where 4.4 screws up. Current fix: serialization on * sb->s_vfs_rename_mutex. We might be more accurate, but that's another |