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

Nicolas Pitre
2011-07-19T04:41:08Z

On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, Al Viro wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 07:17:18PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Linus Torvalds
> > <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Good catch, that test was indeed the wrong way around. Thanks.
> >
> > Oh, and Al - just fold the thing into the original patch rather than
> > carry a buggy patch and the fix around. You might as well credit Hugh
> > as author for the whole thing, since he ended up being not just the
> > one to find the problem, but describe the solution anyway and fix the
> > patch.
>
> Umm... Is there any convenient way to make git commit --amend change
> the author of commit?

git commit --amend --author="Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>"

Nicolas