[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 ->fs_supers

[PATCH 23/75] livelock avoidance in sget()

2013-08-14 Thread Luis Henriques
3.5.7.19 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Al Viro commit acfec9a5a892f98461f52ed5770de99a3e571ae2 upstream. Eric Sandeen has found a nasty livelock in sget() - take a mount(2) about to fail. The superblock is on ->fs_supers, ->

[ 19/23] livelock avoidance in sget()

2013-08-02 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Al Viro commit acfec9a5a892f98461f52ed5770de99a3e571ae2 upstream. Eric Sandeen has found a nasty livelock in sget() - take a mount(2) about to fail. The superblock is on ->fs_supers, ->s_umoun

[ 30/39] livelock avoidance in sget()

2013-08-02 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Al Viro commit acfec9a5a892f98461f52ed5770de99a3e571ae2 upstream. Eric Sandeen has found a nasty livelock in sget() - take a mount(2) about to fail. The superblock is on ->fs_supers, ->s_umoun

[ 92/99] livelock avoidance in sget()

2013-08-02 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Al Viro commit acfec9a5a892f98461f52ed5770de99a3e571ae2 upstream. Eric Sandeen has found a nasty livelock in sget() - take a mount(2) about to fail. The superblock is on ->fs_supers, ->s_umou

Re: livelock avoidance in sget()

2013-08-01 Thread Greg KH
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 thi

Re: livelock avoidance in sget()

2013-07-20 Thread Al Viro
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

Re: livelock avoidance in sget()

2013-07-20 Thread Greg KH
0 > Committer: Al Viro > CommitDate: Sat Jul 20 04:58:58 2013 +0400 > > livelock avoidance in sget() > > Eric Sandeen has found a nasty livelock in sget() - take a mount(2) about > to fail. The superblock is on ->fs_supers, ->s_umount is held exclusive, >