Re: [CFT] Re: VFS deadlock ?
[Posted April 2, 2013 by mkerrisk]
| From: |
| Dave Jones <davej-AT-redhat.com> |
| To: |
| Linus Torvalds <torvalds-AT-linux-foundation.org> |
| Subject: |
| Re: [CFT] Re: VFS deadlock ? |
| Date: |
| Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:23:26 -0400 |
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| <20130322162326.GA2543@redhat.com> |
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| Al Viro <viro-AT-zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm-AT-xmission.com> |
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On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:33:27PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ok, that's kind of ugly, but shouldn't be a correctness issue. It
> should still work - just cycle through inodes quite aggressivelydue to
> no longer re-using them - so I suspect Dave could test it (with the
> extra line removed I pointed out just a moment ago).
Been running a few hours now without incident.
Of course, proving absense of a bug is always fun when fuzzing, as it
may have just not run long enough yet.. though I was hitting it pretty
quickly last night.
Dave
