This beast seems to be more or less OK, so it _may_ be safe
enough to play with, preferably away from your data. Please, try it - SMP
boxen being the most interesting, indeed.
Other things in the patch (aside of SMP-safe dcache):
* prevention of open() on AF_UNIX sockets (fix for OOPS).
* fixed the order of check_dick_change() and blkdev_open() on mounting.
* applied fix for races in blkdev_get() and blkdev_open() - hell knows how
I managed to miss it ;-<
* applied Alexey's fix for races in net/unix/af_unix.c
* sockfs added, special-casing in procfs went away.
Please, give it a beating. It's on ftp.math.psu.edu/pub/viro/dcache-ac6-B.gz
(against -ac6, indeed).
Alan, if there will be no bug reports about this one I'll submit it for
your tree.
Cheers,
Al
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