On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 01:25:39AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > Linus, > > Please pull > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs.git overlayfs.v25 > > Plenty of bugs fixed relative to the previous version, thanks to Al Viro's > review and is now officially be BugFree(TM). Also passes the > unionmount-testsuite by David Howells.
*blink* Why the hell do you hold ->i_mutex across the entire opening of underlying directory? All you need is to serialize one assignment; the side that loses the race will simply fput() what it opened... Oh, well - that goes under "weird pessimisations, easy to fix in followups"... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
