Commit 908e0a8a authored Mar 07, 2007 by Peter Zijlstra Committed by Linus Torvalds Mar 08, 2007

[PATCH] ecryptfs: nested locking annotation



ecryptfs uses a lock_parent() function, which I hope really locks the parents
and is not abused

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent f70c81d4

fs/ecryptfs/inode.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ static struct dentry lock_parent(struct dentry dentry)
		struct dentry *dir;

		dir = dget(dentry->d_parent);
		mutex_lock(&(dir->d_inode->i_mutex));
		mutex_lock_nested(&(dir->d_inode->i_mutex), I_MUTEX_PARENT);
		return dir;
		}