On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:08:04PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > But I do agree that it's very unlikely to actually cause problems. > People just don't move mount points around, and the race would seem to > be ridiculously hard to ever hit even if you tried to create some > totally artificial load that does nothing but rename mount-points ;) vfs_rename() will refuse to move mountpoints. Required by POSIX, among other things... > But I think I'm on the same page with Hugh that at this point none of > these issues are even remotely recent, they are basically impossible > to hit, and the fixes are likely potentially more dangerous than the > bugs they fix, so I'll release 3.0 without them and just apply the > fixes (and cc stable) afterwards. Hmm... Could you pull #for-linus (or #for-linus2, for that matter - same plus cifs_get_root() fix) first? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
