Re: [PATCH] vfs: fix race in rcu lookup of pruned dentry

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Jul 19 2011 - 19:57:50 EST


On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> You know what...  I doubt that you want to mess with ->d_seq checks here.

I'm ok with doing just the "move *inode setting" patch.

And if we really don't even allow renames of those mounted things, I
guess the sequence number isn't required.

Linus
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