Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:28:20 +0200 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] overlay filesystem v25 | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> |
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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
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