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    vfs: fix incorrect dentry_update_name_case() BUG_ON() test · 7ebfa57f
    Linus Torvalds authored
    
    
    The case we should be verifying when updating the dentry name is that
    the _parent_ inode (the directory) semaphore is held, not the semaphore
    for the dentry itself.  It's the directory locking that rename and
    readdir() etc all care about.
    
    The comment just above even says so - but then the BUG_ON() still
    checked the dentry inode itself.
    
    Very few people noticed, because this helper function really isn't used
    for very much, so you had to be using ncpfs to ever hit it.
    
    I think I should just remove the BUG_ON (the function really has just
    one user), but let's run with it fixed for a while before getting rid of
    it entirely.
    
    Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarBongani Hlope <bonganih@bankservafrica.com>
    Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarBernd Feige <bernd.feige@uniklinik-freiburg.de>
    Cc: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>,
    Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
    Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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