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

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Message-id: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1107190036490.21187@xanadu.home>
Date:	Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:41:04 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: fix race in rcu lookup of pruned dentry

On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, Al Viro wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 07:17:18PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Linus Torvalds
> > <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Good catch, that test was indeed the wrong way around. Thanks.
> > 
> > Oh, and Al - just fold the thing into the original patch rather than
> > carry a buggy patch and the fix around. You might as well credit Hugh
> > as author for the whole thing, since he ended up being not just the
> > one to find the problem, but describe the solution anyway and fix the
> > patch.
> 
> Umm...  Is there any convenient way to make git commit --amend change
> the author of commit?

	git commit --amend --author="Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>"


Nicolas
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