On Fri, 01 May 2009 12:11:12 -0400 Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2.6.30-rc3 introduced some sanity checks in the VFS code to avoid NFS > bugs by ensuring that lookup_one_len is always called under i_mutex. > > This patch expands the i_mutex locking to enclose lookup_one_len. This was > always required, but not not enforced in the reiserfs code since it > does locking around the xattr interactions with the xattr_sem. cool, so this will fix all those backtraces people have been reporting coming out of the reiserfs xattr code lately? > This is obvious enough, but it survived an overnight 50 thread ACL test. That sounds a bit pessimistic. I think I'll s/but/and/ ;) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
