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authorSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2006-04-21 18:17:42 (GMT)
committerSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2006-04-21 18:17:42 (GMT)
commit0bd4fa977f81c914eb8bada00284d0933825900e (patch)
tree398b2fea4b7902f53be9d0fc9d9c9c07d427dce1 /fs/cifs/link.c
parentf4ffaa452e71495a06376f12f772342bc57051fc (diff)
downloadlinux-0bd4fa977f81c914eb8bada00284d0933825900e.tar.xz
[CIFS] [CIFS] Do not take rename sem on most path based calls (during
building of full path) to avoid hang rename/readdir hang Reported by Alan Tyson Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/cifs/link.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/cifs/link.c6
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/cifs/link.c b/fs/cifs/link.c
index 9562f5b..2ec99f8 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/link.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/link.c
@@ -48,10 +48,8 @@ cifs_hardlink(struct dentry *old_file, struct inode *inode,
/* No need to check for cross device links since server will do that
BB note DFS case in future though (when we may have to check) */
- mutex_lock(&inode->i_sb->s_vfs_rename_mutex);
fromName = build_path_from_dentry(old_file);
toName = build_path_from_dentry(direntry);
- mutex_unlock(&inode->i_sb->s_vfs_rename_mutex);
if((fromName == NULL) || (toName == NULL)) {
rc = -ENOMEM;
goto cifs_hl_exit;
@@ -103,9 +101,7 @@ cifs_follow_link(struct dentry *direntry, struct nameidata *nd)
xid = GetXid();
- mutex_lock(&direntry->d_sb->s_vfs_rename_mutex);
full_path = build_path_from_dentry(direntry);
- mutex_unlock(&direntry->d_sb->s_vfs_rename_mutex);
if (!full_path)
goto out_no_free;
@@ -164,9 +160,7 @@ cifs_symlink(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *direntry, const char *symname)
cifs_sb = CIFS_SB(inode->i_sb);
pTcon = cifs_sb->tcon;
- mutex_lock(&inode->i_sb->s_vfs_rename_mutex);
full_path = build_path_from_dentry(direntry);
- mutex_unlock(&inode->i_sb->s_vfs_rename_mutex);
if(full_path == NULL) {
FreeXid(xid);