Re: [git pull] vfs fixes

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sun Apr 02 2017 - 20:03:08 EST


On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 10:01 AM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> statx followup fixes, fix for a nasty corner case in path_init()
> leaving path.dentry in RCU mode pointing to a dentry without DCACHE_RCUACCESS
> and a fix for stack-smashing on alpha.

These were apparently committed minutes before sending me the pull request.

Why? What kind of testing did this all get?

Linus