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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernfs: fix the race in the creation of negative dentry
From:   Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
To:     Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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On Mon, 2021-09-27 at 09:51 +0800, Hou Tao wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 9/23/2021 10:50 AM, Ian Kent wrote:
> > Great, although I was hoping you would check it worked as expected.
> > Did you check?
> > If not could you please do that check?
> It fixes the race. I rerun the stress test of module addition and
> removal,
> and the problem doesn't occur after 12 hours.

Great, thanks, I'll forward the patch to Greg after some basic testing.

Ian