Re: [PATCH 2/2] sysfs: fix race condition around sd->s_dentry, take#2

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Maneesh Soni wrote:
> 
>> Looks ok to me.. I have tested it it but unfortunately I couldn't
>> recreate the race without the patch also. It would be helpful if
>> people actually seeing the race, provide the test results.
>>
>> Greg, please merge this one once we have some test results.
> 
> I merged this back to RHEL4-era (2.6.9) kernels due to a report of this
> problem on RHEL4.  The tester could hit the sysfs_d_iput bug fairly
> easily before, and has not seen it with this patch in place.
> 
> The other bug they were seeing even more often was the sysfs_readdir()
> oops as we try to extract the inode number for regular sysfs files,
> again due to transient vnodes.  Is any fix for that problem being
> considered for -stable?  I had backported a simpler version of Tejun's
> s_ino fix for the problem, without the ida complexity - and brought a
> couple other small upstream fixes back to support that.  If nothing has
> yet been proposed for -stable, I can post that here.

I don't think any other fix has been proposed yet.  Please post them.
That definitely needs fixing.

-- 
tejun
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