From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932265Ab0F2Rg0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:36:26 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:48867 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932175Ab0F2RgY (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:36:24 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100629145617.GG28364@laptop> References: <20100624030212.676457061@suse.de> <20100624030725.885831564@suse.de> <20100629130214.GA21410@infradead.org> <20100629145617.GG28364@laptop> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:35:47 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [patch 02/52] fs: fix superblock iteration race From: Linus Torvalds To: Nick Piggin Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, John Stultz , Frank Mayhar , Al Viro Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 09:02:14AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> This should actually be on it's way to Linus for .35, shouldn't it? > > Yeah, I was waiting for Al to reappear, but I think this is > probably the nicest way to solve the problem. Linus? I'll apply it. We have a couple of oopses listed for the superblock iterator, and I haven't heard from Al. And the patch looks obviously fine, whether it's actually the cause of some of the bugs or not. Linus