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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fix filp_cachep memory corruption
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Andrew Morton:
> Anyway, as Nick appears to have done a dump-and-run on the kernel
> project, I shall send your fix into Linus as-is. Perhaps you or Nick
> could look into cleaning things up later on?

Before I say "I agree and will clean up", Linus did it and the refined
patch is already merged.
Reading his patch, I am afraid there exists a possibitily of a problem.
In creating a file (and in rcu-walk mode), if ->open returns ESTALE,
then the problem may happen in the next ref-walk mode because
intent.open.file is reset to NULL. But I don't know whether such ->open
exists currently or not.


J. R. Okajima


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