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Date:	Tue, 18 May 2010 12:58:33 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the driver-core tree

Greg this fixes the conflict with the vfs tree we see in linux-next.

Al I will be happy to work with you to rework this hunk of code in the
next cycle so you can kill sb_lock.  It is just too late in the cycle
to be making more than the minimal change necessary.

Eric

From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...stanetworks.com>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 12:24:26 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] sysfs:  Remove usage of S_BIAS to avoid merge conflict with the vfs tree

In Al's latest vfs tree the code is reworked and S_BIAS has been removed.

It turns out that checking to see if a super block is in the
middle of an unmount in sysfs_exit_ns is unnecessary because we
remove the super_block from the s_supers/s_instances list before
struct sysfs_super_info pointed to by sb->s_fs_info is freed.

For now just delete the unnecessary check to see if a superblock is in the
middle of an unmount, it isn't necessary with or without Al's changes
and it just causes a needless conflict.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...stanetworks.com>
---
 fs/sysfs/mount.c |   11 ++++++++---
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/mount.c b/fs/sysfs/mount.c
index bbba090..74f0529 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/mount.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/mount.c
@@ -144,6 +144,9 @@ static void sysfs_kill_sb(struct super_block *sb)
 {
 	struct sysfs_super_info *info = sysfs_info(sb);

+	/* Remove the superblock from fs_supers/s_instances
+	 * so we can't find it, before freeing sysfs_super_info.
+	 */
 	kill_anon_super(sb);
 	kfree(info);
 }
@@ -162,9 +165,11 @@ void sysfs_exit_ns(enum kobj_ns_type type, const void *ns)
 	spin_lock(&sb_lock);
 	list_for_each_entry(sb, &sysfs_fs_type.fs_supers, s_instances) {
 		struct sysfs_super_info *info = sysfs_info(sb);
-		/* Ignore superblocks that are in the process of unmounting */
-		if (sb->s_count <= S_BIAS)
-			continue;
+		/*
+		 * If we see a superblock on the fs_supers/s_instances
+		 * list the unmount has not completed and sb->s_fs_info
+		 * points to a valid struct sysfs_super_info.
+		 */
 		/* Ignore superblocks with the wrong ns */
 		if (info->ns[type] != ns)
 			continue;
-- 
1.6.6.1

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