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Re: locking patches for ufs_rename



On Wed Sep 30 2009 at 14:12:32 +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 05:05:28PM +0300, Antti Kantee wrote:
>  > > I got an extra pile of crap dumped on me and consequently don't have
>  > > time to look at it in any detail for the rest of the week. :(
>  > 
>  > Did any of these kind of changes make it into cvs already?  I got a report
>  > offline about a panic in -current tmpfs_rename where tvp was supplied
>  > but wasn't locked (the IMPLIES KASSERT at the top of the routine).
> 
> No, and I haven't gone near tmpfs recently either. Is it reproduceable?

Apparently not, which made it all the more weirder.  Is there any chance
the new namei code could contain the same mistake under some conditions?
(yea, I know, an unlikely shot in the dark, but ..)


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