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| author |   Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> | 2007-10-18 12:36:10 -0700 |
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| committer | Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> | 2007-11-06 15:31:52 -0800 |
| commit | 9f70968af3e6e21612e06e153aa71c62dee5a09b (patch) | |
| tree | c4a11e07d94ad99fe13512b3b1a117de2613c300 /fs/ocfs2/cluster/heartbeat.c | |
| parent | ocfs2: Create locks at initially requested level (diff) | |
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ocfs2: Re-order iput in ocfs2_drop_dentry_lock
Do this to avoid a theoretical (I haven't seen this in practice) race where
the downconvert thread might drop the dentry lock, allowing a remote unlink
to proceed before dropping the inode locks. This could bounce access to the
orphan dir between nodes.
There doesn't seem to be a need to do the same in ocfs2_dentry_iput() as
that's never called for the last ref drop from the downconvert thread.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
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