Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Jul 2013 07:17:28 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: livelock avoidance in sget() |
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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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