linux-kernel - Re: livelock avoidance in sget()

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Message-ID: <20130721061728.GJ4165@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Sun, 21 Jul 2013 07:17:28 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: livelock avoidance in sget()

On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 01:30:13PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> Hi Al,
> 
> Is the patch below something that we need to worry about for 3.10 and
> older kernels?  Or does the recent changes to the vfs in 3.11-rc1 make
> it so that this can't be hit in older kernels?

Needed since 2.6.35 or so (earlier ones have a lot more problems in that
area and might need a similar fix if they got backports of mainline
fixes).
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