Re: [PATCH] vfs: avoid hang caused by attempting to rmdir an invalid file system

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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
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