From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: livelock avoidance in sget()
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 05:26:59 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130801212659.GA14102@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130721061728.GJ4165@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 07:17:28AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 01:30:13PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > Hi Al,
> >
> > Is the patch below something that we need to worry about for 3.10 and
> > older kernels? Or does the recent changes to the vfs in 3.11-rc1 make
> > it so that this can't be hit in older kernels?
>
> Needed since 2.6.35 or so (earlier ones have a lot more problems in that
> area and might need a similar fix if they got backports of mainline
> fixes).
Thanks, I've now queued this up.
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-01 21:25 UTC|newest]
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2013-07-20 20:30 ` livelock avoidance in sget() Greg KH
2013-07-21 6:17 ` Al Viro
2013-08-01 21:26 ` Greg KH [this message]
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