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commit 28eceeda130f5058074dd007d9c59d2e8bc5af2e upstream. When a directory is moved to a different directory, some filesystems (udf, ext4, ocfs2, f2fs, and likely gfs2, reiserfs, and others) need to update their pointer to the parent and this must not race with other operations on the directory. Lock the directories when they are moved. Although not all filesystems need this locking, we perform it in vfs_rename() because getting the lock ordering right is really difficult and we don't want to expose these locking details to filesystems. CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Message-Id: <20230601105830.13168-5-jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.