Re: [PATCH 0/5][BUGFIX] configfs: Fix deadlock of rename() vsrmdir()

From: Joel Becker
Date: Mon Jun 23 2008 - 18:36:25 EST


On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 04:26:57PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> Ok, this is in-tree for the next merge. Thanks.

Btw, we still need to solve the lockdep issue. I'm leaning
towards turning it off for attach/detach_groups(), because any CHILD+N
level won't mesh with the VFS anyway.
We also need a comment on detach_group() pointing out its
recursive locking. It's there in the code, but it's not obvious.

Joel

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