On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 07:41:28 +0100, Mateusz Guzik wrote: > Suppose a thread sharing the table started a resize, while > sysctl_nr_open got lowered to a value which prohibits it. This is still > going to go through with and without the patch, which is fine. > > Further suppose another thread shows up to do a matching expansion while > resize_in_progress == true. It is going to error out since it performs > the sysctl_nr_open check *before* finding out if there is an expansion > in progress. But the aformentioned thread is going to succeded, so the > error is spurious (and it would not happen if the thread showed up a > little bit later). > > [...] Applied to the vfs-6.14.misc branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree. Patches in the vfs-6.14.misc branch should appear in linux-next soon. Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it. It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated. Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase, trailer updates or similar. If in doubt, please check the listed branch. tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git branch: vfs-6.14.misc [1/1] fs: delay sysctl_nr_open check in expand_files() https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/bb35f8709172
