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Subject: Re: [PATCH] configfs: Fix race between create_link and configfs_rmdir
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
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> Thanks Nic,
>
> applied to the configfs-for-next tree.  I'm not entirely sure if we
> should bother adding this to 4.12 or if it hits rarely enough?
>
It hits for us pretty often when we have a GPFS setup with 10 hosts and 1k+ vms.

That is how we discovered the bug in the first place.

-Bryant