Re: [PATCH] configfs: Fix race between create_link and configfs_rmdir

On Thu, 2017-06-08 at 07:34 -0500, Bryant G. Ly wrote: > > Thanks Nic, > > > > applied to the configfs-for-next tree. I'm not entirely sure if we > > should bother adding this to 4.12 or if it hits rarely enough? > > > It hits for us pretty often when we have a GPFS setup with 10 hosts and 1k+ >

Re: [PATCH] configfs: Fix race between create_link and configfs_rmdir

Thanks Nic, applied to the configfs-for-next tree. I'm not entirely sure if we should bother adding this to 4.12 or if it hits rarely enough? It hits for us pretty often when we have a GPFS setup with 10 hosts and 1k+ vms. That is how we discovered the bug in the first place. -Bryant

Re: [PATCH] configfs: Fix race between create_link and configfs_rmdir

Thanks Nic, applied to the configfs-for-next tree. I'm not entirely sure if we should bother adding this to 4.12 or if it hits rarely enough?

[PATCH] configfs: Fix race between create_link and configfs_rmdir

From: Nicholas Bellinger This patch closes a long standing race in configfs between the creation of a new symlink in create_link(), while the symlink target's config_item is being concurrently removed via configfs_rmdir(). This can happen because the symlink target's