Re: [git pull] vfs fixes

From: Al Viro
Date: Sun Apr 02 2017 - 20:20:51 EST


On Sun, Apr 02, 2017 at 04:59:10PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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?

The first two used to sit on a branch that predated statx merge into mainline,
the rest obviously depends on statx.

> What kind of testing did this all get?

xfstests/ltp for the last part (-rc4 based branch with statx), same + Dmitry's
reproducer for path_init() crap, trivial test for alpha old_adjtimex().

My apologies for rebase; if anything, it would've been cleaner to cherry-pick
the old pair of fixes on top of statx series.