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

Linus Torvalds
2011-07-19T23:57:48Z

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
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> You know what...  I doubt that you want to mess with ->d_seq checks here.

I'm ok with doing just the "move *inode setting" patch.

And if we really don't even allow renames of those mounted things, I
guess the sequence number isn't required.

Linus