Re: [PATCH 0/5][BUGFIX] configfs: Fix deadlock of rename() vsrmdir()
From: Joel Becker
Date: Mon Jun 16 2008 - 19:27:55 EST
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 07:00:57PM +0200, Louis Rilling wrote:
> This patchset fixes the deadlock described below. This second version of the
> patchset fixes another long-standing bug in symlinks locking. Please read the
> headers of the third and fourth patches for a detailed explanation of the
> bugfixes. The last patch fixes a new behavior introduced by the deadlock fix,
> and that ones could find undesirable. Whether it is really needed or not is
> debatable.
Ok, this is in-tree for the next merge. Thanks.
Joel
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