linux-kernel - Re: [stable] patch sysfs-store-sysfs-inode-nrs-in-s_ino-to-avoid-readdir-oopses.patch queued to -stable tree

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Date:	Wed, 6 Jun 2007 15:05:04 -0700
From:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>
Cc:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>, gregkh@...e.de,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, htejun@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, maneesh@...ibm.com,
	sandeen@...hat.com, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] patch
	sysfs-store-sysfs-inode-nrs-in-s_ino-to-avoid-readdir-oopses.patch
	queued to -stable tree

* Eric Sandeen (sandeen@...deen.net) wrote:
> Well, my backport of Tejun's patch explicitly doesn't use ida for just
> that reason...
> 
> It uses a simple counter instead (which may give dup inode numbers, but
> I think we have that today, and at least this shouldn't oops...)

Right, my point is the source of the backport is in -mm for maybe as
long as 6 weeks but not in Linus' tree.  I s'pose it's chicken and egg
for the ida code.  I'd prefer to see your patch upstream, and Tejun's
code becomes the ida code plus conversion of the simple counter to ida
at some later point in time.
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