Re: [GIT PULL 14/22] xfs: fix bugs in parent pointer checking

[Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>]

On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 08:48:26PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> 
> Please pull this branch with changes for xfs.
> 
> As usual, I did a test-merge with the main upstream branch as of a few
> minutes ago, and didn't see any conflicts.  Please let me know if you
> encounter any problems.
> 
> --D
> 
> The following changes since commit 0916056eba4fd816f8042a3960597c316ea10256:
> 
> xfs: fix parent pointer scrub racing with subdirectory reparenting (2023-04-11 19:00:20 -0700)
> 
> are available in the Git repository at:
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djwong/xfs-linux.git tags/scrub-parent-fixes-6.4_2023-04-11
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 0916056eba4fd816f8042a3960597c316ea10256:
> 
> xfs: fix parent pointer scrub racing with subdirectory reparenting (2023-04-11 19:00:20 -0700)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> xfs: fix bugs in parent pointer checking [v24.5]
> 
> Jan Kara pointed out that the VFS doesn't take i_rwsem of a child
> subdirectory that is being moved from one parent to another.  Upon
> deeper analysis, I realized that this was the source of a very hard to
> trigger false corruption report in the parent pointer checking code.
> 
> Now that we've refactored how directory walks work in scrub, we can also
> get rid of all the unnecessary and broken locking to make parent pointer
> scrubbing work properly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------

Empty pull request?

Looks like the next pull-req is empty, too, and the commits that are
supposed to be in these are in pull-req after that?

-Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com