> > Well, since I can reproduce this bug on demand, I'd be interested in
> > testing any patches you feel like coming up with.
>
> Hi Austin,
>
> I've reworked the dentry locking for the nfsd create routine, and
> hopefully this will take care of the problems you reported. The code now
> locks the parent directory before checking for existence, and keeps the
> parent locked through the call to the low-level create op.
>
> The attached patch has been lightly tested and seems to behave
> correctly, but let me know how it works out.
Ok, this is much better. I still get a single:
May 31 21:06:23 valour kernel: nfsd_create: dentry ThesisProposal/ThesisProposal not negative!
message - is this of concernt?
I've now got a really simply way of reproducing the problem:
mkdir .
This is what my tar happened to be doing
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