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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 02:51:31 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] real_lookup fix
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Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> wrote:
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> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Here is a patch to use seqlock for real_lookup race with d_lookup as suggested
> by Linus. The race condition can result in duplicate dentry when d_lookup
> fails due concurrent d_move in some unrelated directory. 

I was not aware of this race.  Could you please explain it in more detail?

Thanks.
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