linux-ext4 - [Bug 205567] potential (possibly benign) data race on ext4_dir_entry_2->inode when getdents64 and rename happens on the same directory

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Message-ID: <bug-205567-13602-Ofew6CRC1c@https.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
Date:   Mon, 18 Nov 2019 23:10:24 +0000
From:   bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org
To:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [Bug 205567] potential (possibly benign) data race on
 ext4_dir_entry_2->inode when getdents64 and rename happens on the same
 directory

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205567

--- Comment #2 from Meng Xu (mengxu.gatech@...il.com) ---
(In reply to Eric Sandeen from comment #1)
> As a suggestion - if you do not know for sure that these are bugs, it might
> be better to ask these questions the list, as opposed to filing bugs.
> 
> Is this from code inspection, or are you using KCSAN or a similar tool?

I am using a tool developed by ourselves, not KCSAN, it is still a work in
progress so it may raise some false positives :(

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