[PATCH 05/20] afs: Implement @sys substitution handling
Al Viro
viro at ZenIV.linux.org.uk
Thu Apr 5 23:51:18 PDT 2018
On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 09:30:04PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> +static struct dentry *afs_lookup_atsys(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
> + struct key *key)
> +{
> + ret = lookup_one_len(buf, parent, len);
Er... Parent is locked only shared here and lookup_one_len() seriously depends
upon exclusive lock. As it is, race with lookup of the full name will mess the
things up very badly.
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