linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] vfs.git

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Date:	Sat, 19 Mar 2016 18:55:21 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] vfs.git

On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 6:44 PM, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>         Preparations of parallel lookups (the remaining main obstacle is the
> need to move security_d_instantiate(); once that becomes safe, the rest will
> be a matter of rather short series local to fs/*.c) + preadv2/pwritev2 series
> from Christoph + assorted fixes.

So this:

> Al Viro:
>       replace d_add_unique() with saner primitive

ends up conflicting with commit d9dfd8d74168 ("NFSv4: Fix a dentry
leak on alias use").

>From what I can tell, your version doesn't have the leak issue, so my
merge resolution is to just take your new code as-is, but I'd ask you
to double-check my logic.

(I haven't pushed out the merge yet, it's still going through my build
test. Soon, but I guess you can just take a look at that dentry leak
commit regardless).

                  Linus