From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.158.5]:45798 "EHLO mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750822AbdFHMeI (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2017 08:34:08 -0400 Received: from pps.filterd (m0098421.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.20/8.16.0.20) with SMTP id v58CXtAw085451 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2017 08:34:08 -0400 Received: from e11.ny.us.ibm.com (e11.ny.us.ibm.com [129.33.205.201]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 2axxux5nkr-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 08 Jun 2017 08:34:07 -0400 Received: from localhost by e11.ny.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Thu, 8 Jun 2017 08:34:07 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] configfs: Fix race between create_link and configfs_rmdir To: Christoph Hellwig , "Nicholas A. Bellinger" References: <1496897514-20142-1-git-send-email-nab@linux-iscsi.org> <20170608072129.GA13433@lst.de> Cc: target-devel , linux-fsdevel , linux-scsi , lkml , Joel Becker From: "Bryant G. Ly" Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 07:34:05 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170608072129.GA13433@lst.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > Thanks Nic, > > applied to the configfs-for-next tree. I'm not entirely sure if we > should bother adding this to 4.12 or if it hits rarely enough? > It hits for us pretty often when we have a GPFS setup with 10 hosts and 1k+ vms. That is how we discovered the bug in the first place. -Bryant