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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] overlay filesystem v25
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Hi Al,

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 03:20:55AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
>> Why the hell do you hold ->i_mutex across the entire opening of underlying
>> directory? All you need is to serialize one assignment; the side that loses
>> the race will simply fput() what it opened...
>>
>> Oh, well - that goes under "weird pessimisations, easy to fix in followups"...
>
> OK, pulled into vfs.git, followups in question added. Also there: fix for
> a long-standing leak in d_splice_alias() failure exits. Guys, could you
> check that current vfs.git#for-linus survives your local tests? Seems to
> survive here; if I don't hear of any problems by tomorrow morning, to Linus
> it goes... FWIW, for that pull request stats would be

I think you forgot to merge your for-linus branch into for-next?

Anyway, as Stephen announced there will be no linux-next release
today, I'm afraid you'll have to delay your pull request to Tuesday.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds


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