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From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.2-rc6
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 10:36:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111217153606.GE5679@shiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111217084944.GV2203@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 08:49:44AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 06:53:17PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > Casey Schaufler (1):
> >       BTRFS: Establish i_ops before calling d_instantiate
> 
> I'm sorry, but that's nowhere near enough.  As I said in followup to
> the original posting of that patch, it still leaves a race window
> where inode is already associated with dentry but still doesn't have
> ->a_ops, etc. set up.  Hell, ->symlink() doesn't write the symlink
> body until after that point...

Thanks Al, I'll test this as well and pull it in.

-chris

      reply	other threads:[~2011-12-17 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-17  2:53 Linux 3.2-rc6 Linus Torvalds
2011-12-17  7:29 ` Stephen Rothwell
2011-12-17  8:49 ` Al Viro
2011-12-17 15:36   ` Chris Mason [this message]

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