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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] vfs: Don't exchange "short" filenames unconditionally.
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 21:18:13 +0100
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On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:20:38PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Yecchhhh...  Applied, but it's very ugly.  Oh, well - regression is
> > regression, and I don't see a cleaner fix at the moment.  If I don't
> > manage to come up with anything prettier, to Linus it goes in tonight
> > pull request ;-/
> 
> Please don't. That thing is too ugly to exist. It also looks
> completely and utterly buggy. There's no way I'm taking it. If
> switch-names is suddenly conditional, what the f*ck happens to the
> name hash which is unconditionally done with a swap() right
> afterwards.

The sucker's unhashed after that...  And yes, I agree that it's fucking
ugly.  Still looking for saner ways to do that...