-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Morton wrote: > 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? Yes. >> 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/ ;) Yeah, that's more accurate. :) - -Jeff - -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkn7XU4ACgkQLPWxlyuTD7JOAgCfcVV+kowmYbaBKNCZG7BfNx3V 9dwAoKGB7Uu2RkwXtkpaaCi2ADtQszC1 =B4is -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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
