Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 Aug 2013 05:26:59 +0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: livelock avoidance in sget() |
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On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 07:17:28AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > 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).
Thanks, I've now queued this up.
greg k-h
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