From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: NFS possible race condition, nfs_unlink vs. d_lookup Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:47:51 -0800 Message-ID: <1141418871.10976.31.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1FFHC0-0004tP-3z for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:48:04 -0800 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16] ident=7411) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1FFHBy-0005WG-JO for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:48:04 -0800 To: Steven Timm In-Reply-To: Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 09:57 -0600, Steven Timm wrote: > My question.. is the 2.4.21-37 kernel as distributed by Red Hat also > vulnerable to this race condition? If so, is there any > patch that is available? The code in dir.c in the 2.4 series > kernel is different enough such that this patch won't apply to it. No idea. Are you saying that RedHat shipped a 2.4.x kernel with RCU patches to the vfs before they had been tested in the 2.6.x kernel? Cheers, Trond ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs