linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kernfs: fix the race in the creation of negative dentry

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Message-ID: <13592fb7-5bc1-41cf-f19d-150b1e634fb2@huawei.com>
Date:   Mon, 27 Sep 2021 09:51:20 +0800
From:   Hou Tao <houtao1@...wei.com>
To:     Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com>
CC:     <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>, <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernfs: fix the race in the creation of negative dentry

Hi,

On 9/23/2021 10:50 AM, Ian Kent wrote:
> Great, although I was hoping you would check it worked as expected.
> Did you check?
> If not could you please do that check?
It fixes the race. I rerun the stress test of module addition and removal,
and the problem doesn't occur after 12 hours.

Regards,
Tao