Re: [PATCH] sysfs: Take sysfs_mutex when fetching the root inode.

[Tejun Heo]

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> sysfs_get_inode ultimately calls sysfs_count_nlink when the a
> directory inode is fectched.  sysfs_count_nlink needs to be
> called under the sysfs_mutex to guard against the unlikely
> but possible scenario that the root directory is changing
> as we are counting the number entries in it, and just in
> general to be consistent.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

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tejun
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