Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759200AbYFPX1y (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:27:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758674AbYFPX1h (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:27:37 -0400 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:16427 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758378AbYFPX1g (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:27:36 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:26:57 -0700 From: Joel Becker To: Louis Rilling Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5][BUGFIX] configfs: Fix deadlock of rename() vs rmdir() Message-ID: <20080616232657.GE6441@mail.oracle.com> Mail-Followup-To: Louis Rilling , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com References: <20080616170057.399713501@kerlabs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080616170057.399713501@kerlabs.com> X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. X-Red-Smith: Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 964 Lines: 27 On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 07:00:57PM +0200, Louis Rilling wrote: > This patchset fixes the deadlock described below. This second version of the > patchset fixes another long-standing bug in symlinks locking. Please read the > headers of the third and fourth patches for a detailed explanation of the > bugfixes. The last patch fixes a new behavior introduced by the deadlock fix, > and that ones could find undesirable. Whether it is really needed or not is > debatable. Ok, this is in-tree for the next merge. Thanks. Joel -- "There is no sincerer love than the love of food." - George Bernard Shaw Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127 -- 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/