On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 02:34:33PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> > > On 6.7-rc2, I've noticed that this test hangs unpredictably because the > stat loop fails to exit. While the kill $loop_pid command /should/ take > care of it, it clearly isn't. > > Set up an additional safety factor by checking for the existence of a > sentinel flag before starting the loop body. In bash, "[" is a builtin > so the loop should run almost as tightly as it did before. Loks good: Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>