Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423533Ab3CVW6B (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:58:01 -0400 Received: from out01.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.231]:44500 "EHLO out01.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423504Ab3CVW57 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:57:59 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Al Viro , Dave Jones , Linux Kernel References: <20130321233630.GE21522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20130322001257.GH21522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20130322012208.GJ21522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20130322014037.GK21522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20130322043715.GL21522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20130322051817.GM21522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:57:50 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:43:50 -0700") Message-ID: <874ng3m49d.fsf@xmission.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-XM-AID: U2FsdGVkX1/s98HaKln0U/zSQtxh5egQZxpRtaysATk= X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 98.207.154.105 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-Spam-Report: * -1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP * 0.0 T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG BODY: T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG * -3.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] * -0.0 DCC_CHECK_NEGATIVE Not listed in DCC * [sa01 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1] X-Spam-DCC: XMission; sa01 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Spam-Combo: ;Linus Torvalds X-Spam-Relay-Country: Subject: Re: [CFT] Re: VFS deadlock ? X-Spam-Flag: No X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:26:46 -0700) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on in02.mta.xmission.com) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 805 Lines: 19 Linus Torvalds writes: > Regardless, the patch seems to be the right thing to do. It actually > simplifies /proc, seems to fix the problem for Dave, and is small and > should be trivial to backport. I've committed it and marked it for > stable. Let's hope there won't be any nasty surprises, but it does > seem to be the simplest non-hacky patch. Thanks for pushing this to completion. I thought I had fixed this several years ago by not reusing the directory inodes under /proc/net but apparently that never happened. Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/