You and Illia agree on this point. I'll wait for replies and take your
original patch into the testing branch unless any concerns are raised.
On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 3:59 PM Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 2:24 PM Alex Markuze <amarkuze@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Max, could you add a cap on the retry count to your original patch?
>
> Before I wrote code that's not useful at all: I don't quite get why
> retry on buffer overflow is necessary at all. It looks like it once
> seemed to be a useful kludge, but then 1b71fe2efa31 ("ceph analog of
> cifs build_path_from_dentry() race fix") added the read_seqretry()
> check which, to my limited understanding, is a more robust
> implementation of rename detection.
>
> Max
>
