Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:27:03 -0700 | From | Joel Becker <> | Subject | Re: [BUGFIX][PATCH v2 0/2] configfs: Fix cleanup after mkdir() failure |
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On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 03:08:21PM +0200, Louis Rilling wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 03:07:40PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 04:56:04PM +0200, Louis Rilling wrote: > > > This patchset fixes two kinds of bugs happening when > > > configfs_attach_group()/configfs_attach_item() fail and userspace races with > > > mkdir() or symlink(). > > > > Ok, I've merged all this work. Please check out my configfs-ALL > > branch and make sure I have everything we've worked on. > > > > http://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=jlbec/linux-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=configfs-ALL > > git://oss.oracle.com/git/jlbec/linux-2.6.git configfs-ALL > > Looks complete.
Ok, I'm going to get it to linux-next,then off to Linus for .27.
> There is still a few things in flight: > - error handling in config_*_init_type_name(): has rather low priority in my > TODO list, will come back to it probably in a few weeks.
I thought we did this already. Perhaps I didn't include it? Did we have another change to make?
> - a small locking cleanup in configfs_rmdir(): will do at the same time as > lockdep stuff.
What sort of change? I suppose I'll see it when it arrives. I figure this new stuff will probably miss the .27 window, but it sounds like that's fine - nothing too serious, and it will make .28.
Joel
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