linux-kernel - Re: [CFT] Re: VFS deadlock ?

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Message-ID: <874ng3m49d.fsf@xmission.com>
Date:	Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:57:50 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [CFT] Re: VFS deadlock ?

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> writes:

> Regardless, the patch seems to be the right thing to do. It actually
> simplifies /proc, seems to fix the problem for Dave, and is small and
> should be trivial to backport. I've committed it and marked it for
> stable. Let's hope there won't be any nasty surprises, but it does
> seem to be the simplest non-hacky patch.

Thanks for pushing this to completion.

I thought I had fixed this several years ago by not reusing the
directory inodes under /proc/net but apparently that never happened.

Eric
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