[115/251] livelock avoidance in sget()

2013-09-10 Thread Steven Rostedt
3.6.11.9-rc1 stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Al Viro [ Upstream commit acfec9a5a892f98461f52ed5770de99a3e571ae2 ] Eric Sandeen has found a nasty livelock in sget() - take a mount(2) about to fail. The superblock is on

[115/251] livelock avoidance in sget()

2013-09-10 Thread Steven Rostedt
3.6.11.9-rc1 stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Al Viro v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk [ Upstream commit acfec9a5a892f98461f52ed5770de99a3e571ae2 ] Eric Sandeen has found a nasty livelock in sget() - take a mount(2) about to fail. The