linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vfs: fix race in rcu lookup of pruned dentry

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Date:	Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:23:39 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: fix race in rcu lookup of pruned dentry

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 08:20:38PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:

> Hmm...  Could you pull #for-linus (or #for-linus2, for that matter - same
> plus cifs_get_root() fix) first?

FWIW, diffstat and changelog for #for-linus2:
 fs/ceph/mds_client.c |   19 ++++++++-
 fs/cifs/cifsfs.c     |  100 ++++++++++++++-----------------------------------
 fs/cifs/dir.c        |   13 ++++++-
 fs/cramfs/inode.c    |   22 ++++++-----
 fs/exofs/super.c     |    2 +-
 fs/hppfs/hppfs.c     |   31 ++++-----------
 fs/ufs/namei.c       |   12 ++----
 7 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 116 deletions(-)
Al Viro (8):
      cifs: build_path_from_dentry() race fix
      ceph analog of cifs build_path_from_dentry() race fix
      fix exofs ->get_parent()
      ufs should use d_splice_alias()
      cramfs: get_cramfs_inode() returns ERR_PTR() on failure
      hppfs: fix dentry leak
      hppfs_lookup(): don't open-code lookup_one_len()
      Fix cifs_get_root()
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