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namei: trivial fix to vfs_rename_dir comment 

Looks like the directory loop check is actually done in renameat?
Whatever, leave this out rather than trying to keep it up to date with
the code.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
J. Bruce Fields 2014-02-17 16:52:33 -05:00 committed by Al Viro
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@ -4024,7 +4024,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(link, const char __user *, oldname, const char __user *, newname
* The worst of all namespace operations - renaming directory. "Perverted"
* doesn't even start to describe it. Somebody in UCB had a heck of a trip...
* Problems:
* a) we can get into loop creation. Check is done in is_subdir().
* a) we can get into loop creation.
* b) race potential - two innocent renames can create a loop together.
* That's where 4.4 screws up. Current fix: serialization on
* sb->s_vfs_rename_mutex. We might be more accurate, but that's another