Re: [git pull][vfs.git] a couple of fixes

2017-09-21 Thread Al Viro
On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 05:59:57AM -1000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 6:13 PM, Al Viro wrote: > > A couple of regression fixes, one for this merge window, one for > > the previous cycle. > > That older fix for 4.13 doesn't seem to be marked for stable. > > Can you mak

Re: [git pull][vfs.git] a couple of fixes

2017-09-21 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 6:13 PM, Al Viro wrote: > A couple of regression fixes, one for this merge window, one for > the previous cycle. That older fix for 4.13 doesn't seem to be marked for stable. Can you make sure it gets to Greg? Linus

[git pull][vfs.git] a couple of fixes

2017-09-20 Thread Al Viro
A couple of regression fixes, one for this merge window, one for the previous cycle. The following changes since commit 2bd6bf03f4c1c59381d62c61d03f6cc3fe71f66e: Linux 4.14-rc1 (2017-09-16 15:47:51 -0700) are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ker

Re: [git pull][vfs.git] a couple of fixes

2012-09-28 Thread Linus Torvalds
Hmm. What is the status of the rename_lock write-lock recursion deadlock patch from Miklos? Attached is a simpler version of it (Miklos, can you verify this simplified version also works for you?), but it's still fairly ugly. Linus patch.diff Description: Binary data

[git pull][vfs.git] a couple of fixes

2012-09-27 Thread Al Viro
A couple of fixes; one for automount/lazy umount race, another a classic "we don't protect the refcount transition to zero with the lock that protects looking for object in hash" kind of crap in lockd. Please, pull. The usual place - git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git for