we are holding namespace_sem and a reference to root of tree; iterating through that tree does not need mount_lock. Neither does the insertion into the rbtree of new namespace or incrementing the mount count of that namespace. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namespace.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c index 2e35f5eb4f81..425c33377770 100644 --- a/fs/namespace.c +++ b/fs/namespace.c @@ -3086,14 +3086,12 @@ static struct file *open_detached_copy(struct path *path, bool recursive) return ERR_CAST(mnt); } - lock_mount_hash(); for (p = mnt; p; p = next_mnt(p, mnt)) { mnt_add_to_ns(ns, p); ns->nr_mounts++; } ns->root = mnt; mntget(&mnt->mnt); - unlock_mount_hash(); namespace_unlock(); mntput(path->mnt); -- 2.47.2