On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 01:33:42PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > If we rmdir a directory which is a hard link to '.', we will deadlock > trying to grab the directory's i_mutex. Check for this condition and > return EINVAL, which is what we return if the user attempts to rmdir > "/foo/bar/." > > Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> > --- > fs/namei.c | 11 +++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) Any reason why you didn't also tag this for the stable kernel releases? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
