Re: Linux 3.2-rc6

[Chris Mason]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 08:49:44AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 06:53:17PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > Casey Schaufler (1):
> >       BTRFS: Establish i_ops before calling d_instantiate
> 
> I'm sorry, but that's nowhere near enough.  As I said in followup to
> the original posting of that patch, it still leaves a race window
> where inode is already associated with dentry but still doesn't have
> ->a_ops, etc. set up.  Hell, ->symlink() doesn't write the symlink
> body until after that point...

Thanks Al, I'll test this as well and pull it in.

-chris
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