Alex Tomas wrote:
>>>>>> Eric Sandeen (ES) writes:
>
> ES> so I think it's possible that link can sneak in there & find it after
> ES> the mutex is dropped...? Is this ok? :) It's certainly -happening-
> ES> anyway....
>
> yes, but it shouldn't allow to re-link such inode back, IMHO.
> a filesystem may start some non-revertable activity in its
> unlink method.
>
> thanks, Alex
I tend to agree, chatting w/ Al I think he does too. :) I'll test
a patch that kicks out ext3_link() with -ENOENT at the top, and resubmit
that if things go well.
-Eric
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