Commit 908e0a8a authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Linus Torvalds

[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: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent f70c81d4
...@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ static struct dentry *lock_parent(struct dentry *dentry) ...@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ static struct dentry *lock_parent(struct dentry *dentry)
struct dentry *dir; struct dentry *dir;
dir = dget(dentry->d_parent); 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; return dir;
} }
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