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Message-Id: <20120322161734.2a22f3ba.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:17:34 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Justin Pettit <jpettit@...ira.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc-ns: Use d_set_d_op() API to set dentry ops in
 proc_ns_instantiate().

On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:08:17 -0700
Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com> wrote:

> From: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
> 
> Use d_set_d_op() so that DCACHE_OP_* flags are set correctly which fixes ns
> cleanup path i.e. `ip netns delete `.
> 
> This issue exists back to 3.0.

What does "fixes" mean?  Please provide a full description of the
user-visible impact of the bug, so that others can ascertain whether
the patch will fix a problem which they're seeing and so that people
like me can work out which kernel versions we should merge it into.

Thanks.

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