Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263319AbTFKRYd (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2003 13:24:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263338AbTFKRYd (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2003 13:24:33 -0400 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16]:17122 "EHLO pat.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263319AbTFKRYc (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2003 13:24:32 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16103.26865.361044.360120@charged.uio.no> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 19:37:53 +0200 To: Alan Cox Cc: Linus Torvalds , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Frank Cusack , Trond Myklebust , Marcelo Tosatti , lkml Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfs_unlink() race (was: nfs_refresh_inode: inode number mismatch) In-Reply-To: <1055352127.2419.25.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> References: <1055352127.2419.25.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.4 (patch 8) "Honest Recruiter" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no From: Trond Myklebust X-MailScanner-Information: This message has been scanned for viruses/spam. Contact postmaster@uio.no if you have questions about this scanning. X-UiO-MailScanner: No virus found Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 782 Lines: 20 >>>>> " " == Alan Cox writes: > I've seen it on early 2.5 and on 2.4, current 2.5.x seems to be > ok from a quick test. 2.4 has the 'return ESTALE if current dir fails d_revalidate()' test. Looks like the vfat stuff has the same problem that Sigh... Can we perhaps add FS_ALWAYS_REVAL in order to flag what kind of behaviour filesystems expect in link_path_walk()? NFS needs revalidation on all open() calls (including opendir(".")), so removing the ESTALE code is not an option. Cheers, Trond - 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/