Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:59:26 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] vfs: fix race in rcu lookup of pruned dentry |
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On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > The above (whitespace-damaged) patch may look trivial, but it is > *entirely* untested, and maybe my gut feel that the above is the right > way to solve the problem is just wrong. > > Al, any reactions? Hugh, does the above patch work for your > stress-test case? Or, indeed, at all?
Hmm, it worked for my small test, including under memory pressure that was shrinking dentries. But my test is not the kind of stress-test that you clearly have, so that only means that it has not *really* obvious breakages.
Linus
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