Re: [PATCH] vfs: take i_mutex on renamed file

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 03:27:12PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> What are the chances of getting this reviewed for this merge cycle?  Is
> it on somebody's list?
> 
> If it would make it any simpler: the one that I think absolutely must get wider
> review, and get merged through Al's tree, is "vfs: take i_mutex on renamed
> file".
> 
> There aren't actually any dependencies between that and the rest;

Based on discussion at LSF, and absent any objections, I'm leaving "vfs:
take i_mutex on renamed file" for Al to take, and merging the rest
through the nfsd tree for 3.5.  (Al, assuming that's the correct thing
to do, should I add an acked-by/reviewed-by for you to the patches I
merge?)

--b.

> and
> the rest is mainly in nfsd/ and locks.c (changes to which have mostly
> been going through my tree anyway, I think); other than that:
> 
>  fs/attr.c           |    3 ++
>  fs/namei.c          |   18 +++++++++++++-
> 
> straightforward changes that tend to look like:
> 
> 	+	error = break_deleg(inode, O_WRONLY);
> 	+	if (error)
> 	+		return error;
> 
>  include/linux/fs.h  |   19 +++++++++++++--
> 
> and some definitions.
> 
> --b.