linux-kernel - Re: Missing stable commits?

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Message-ID: <1330965801.25686.328.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Mon, 05 Mar 2012 11:43:21 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Missing stable commits?

Please ignore this. Seems it is in stable, but not in the branch I was
looking at.

Sorry for the noise :-p

-- Steve


On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 11:39 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> As I'm going through adding commits from Thomas's latest -rt patch set
> into the stable-rt tree, some of the patches conflicted. Looking at the
> conflicts, it seems that mainline has patches that should probably be
> added to the stable tree. Here's what I found so far:
> 
> commit 1b71fe2efa31cd18c865db474a4cd473b6ab5281
> Author: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> Date:   Sat Jul 16 23:43:58 2011 -0400
> 
>     ceph analog of cifs build_path_from_dentry() race fix
>     
>     ... unfortunately, cifs bug got copied.  Fix is essentially the same.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> 
> commit dc137bf553dbb6855bd7efc34fedcd03102455f7
> Author: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> Date:   Sat Jul 16 23:37:20 2011 -0400
> 
>     cifs: build_path_from_dentry() race fix
>     
>     deal with d_move() races properly; rename_lock read-retry loop,
>     rcu_read_lock() held while walking to root, d_lock held over
>     subtraction from namelen and copying the component to stabilize
>     ->d_name.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> 
> 
> These seem appropriate for stable, don't they?
> 
> -- Steve
> 


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