J. Bruce Fields 9a8d248e2d nfsd: fix double-locks of directory mutex ...

A number of nfsd operations depend on the i_mutex to cover more code
than just the fsync, so the approach of 4c728ef583 "add a vfs_fsync
helper" doesn't work for nfsd.  Revert the parts of those patches that
touch nfsd.

Note: we can't, however, remove the logic from vfs_fsync that was needed
only for the special case of nfsd, because a vfs_fsync(NULL,...) call
can still result indirectly from a stackable filesystem that was called
by nfsd.  (Thanks to Christoph Hellwig for pointing this out.)

Reported-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>

2009-01-07 15:40:45 -05:00

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