Maneesh Soni wrote: > Looks ok to me.. I have tested it it but unfortunately I couldn't > recreate the race without the patch also. It would be helpful if > people actually seeing the race, provide the test results. > > Greg, please merge this one once we have some test results.
I merged this back to RHEL4-era (2.6.9) kernels due to a report of this problem on RHEL4. The tester could hit the sysfs_d_iput bug fairly easily before, and has not seen it with this patch in place. The other bug they were seeing even more often was the sysfs_readdir() oops as we try to extract the inode number for regular sysfs files, again due to transient vnodes. Is any fix for that problem being considered for -stable? I had backported a simpler version of Tejun's s_ino fix for the problem, without the ida complexity - and brought a couple other small upstream fixes back to support that. If nothing has yet been proposed for -stable, I can post that here. Thanks, -Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/