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Message-ID: <20120529082144.GA18792@kroah.com>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 17:21:44 +0900
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, sami.liedes@....fi
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: avoid hang caused by attempting to rmdir an invalid
file system
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 01:33:42PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> If we rmdir a directory which is a hard link to '.', we will deadlock
> trying to grab the directory's i_mutex. Check for this condition and
> return EINVAL, which is what we return if the user attempts to rmdir
> "/foo/bar/."
>
> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
> ---
> fs/namei.c | 11 +++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
Any reason why you didn't also tag this for the stable kernel releases?
thanks,
greg k-h
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