From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [CFT] Re: VFS deadlock ?
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:57:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874ng3m49d.fsf@xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFwACJ+JQHMTGf7waFOygOV8NA0nRhnJVZJg6+bV_7O=4g@mail.gmail.com> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:43:50 -0700")
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> Regardless, the patch seems to be the right thing to do. It actually
> simplifies /proc, seems to fix the problem for Dave, and is small and
> should be trivial to backport. I've committed it and marked it for
> stable. Let's hope there won't be any nasty surprises, but it does
> seem to be the simplest non-hacky patch.
Thanks for pushing this to completion.
I thought I had fixed this several years ago by not reusing the
directory inodes under /proc/net but apparently that never happened.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-22 22:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-21 19:06 VFS deadlock ? Dave Jones
2013-03-21 19:21 ` Al Viro
2013-03-21 20:31 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-21 19:29 ` Al Viro
2013-03-21 20:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-21 20:26 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-21 20:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-21 20:36 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-21 20:47 ` Al Viro
2013-03-21 21:02 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-21 21:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-21 21:26 ` Al Viro
2013-03-21 21:41 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-21 21:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-21 21:55 ` Al Viro
2013-03-21 21:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-21 22:03 ` Al Viro
2013-03-21 21:52 ` Al Viro
2013-03-21 22:12 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-21 22:29 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-21 22:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-21 23:07 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-21 23:36 ` Al Viro
2013-03-21 23:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-22 0:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-22 0:12 ` Al Viro
2013-03-22 0:20 ` Al Viro
2013-03-22 0:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-22 1:22 ` Al Viro
2013-03-22 1:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-22 1:40 ` Al Viro
2013-03-22 4:37 ` [CFT] " Al Viro
2013-03-22 4:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-22 5:18 ` Al Viro
2013-03-22 5:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-22 6:09 ` Al Viro
2013-03-22 6:22 ` Al Viro
2013-03-22 16:23 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-22 19:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-22 21:28 ` Al Viro
2013-03-22 22:57 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2013-03-22 5:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-22 0:08 ` Al Viro
2013-03-22 0:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-22 0:19 ` Linus Torvalds
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