Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752915AbaJXH2Y (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Oct 2014 03:28:24 -0400 Received: from mail-la0-f47.google.com ([209.85.215.47]:47151 "EHLO mail-la0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750964AbaJXH2W (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Oct 2014 03:28:22 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20141024032422.GI7996@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20141023232539.GA4662@tucsk.piliscsaba.szeredi.hu> <20141024022055.GH7996@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20141024032422.GI7996@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:28:20 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: x9Hta_gT1NrCU3SQG4G_FIaugAM Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] overlay filesystem v25 From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Al Viro Cc: Linus Torvalds , Miklos Szeredi , Linux FS Devel , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Rothwell Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Al, On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Al Viro wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 03:20:55AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: >> Why the hell do you hold ->i_mutex across the entire opening of underlying >> directory? All you need is to serialize one assignment; the side that loses >> the race will simply fput() what it opened... >> >> Oh, well - that goes under "weird pessimisations, easy to fix in followups"... > > OK, pulled into vfs.git, followups in question added. Also there: fix for > a long-standing leak in d_splice_alias() failure exits. Guys, could you > check that current vfs.git#for-linus survives your local tests? Seems to > survive here; if I don't hear of any problems by tomorrow morning, to Linus > it goes... FWIW, for that pull request stats would be I think you forgot to merge your for-linus branch into for-next? Anyway, as Stephen announced there will be no linux-next release today, I'm afraid you'll have to delay your pull request to Tuesday. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- 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/