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  1. Bug #769927
  2. Comment #92

Comment 92 for bug 769927

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In , David (david-redhat-bugs) wrote :

I tracked this down to lock_mount() releasing the caller's ref on path->mnt when in finds it has to transit to a new mountpoint from lookup_mnt(). The problem is that pathwalk may not be holding a ref on path->mnt if it's the same as nd->path.mnt as it tries to save on mntget()/mntput() calls.