Re: [PATCH] vfs: fix race in rcu lookup of pruned dentry

Linus Torvalds
2011-07-17T22:59:54Z

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> The above (whitespace-damaged) patch may look trivial, but it is
> *entirely* untested, and maybe my gut feel that the above is the right
> way to solve the problem is just wrong.
>
> Al, any reactions? Hugh, does the above patch work for your
> stress-test case? Or, indeed, at all?

Hmm, it worked for my small test, including under memory pressure that
was shrinking dentries. But my test is not the kind of stress-test
that you clearly have, so that only means that it has not *really*
obvious breakages.

Linus