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Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 15:34:20 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: viro@ZinIV.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eCryptfs: Remove retry loop in ecryptfs_readdir()
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On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 17:28:36 -0500
Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> 
> The retry block in ecryptfs_readdir() has been in the eCryptfs code
> base for a while, apparently for no good reason. This loop could
> potentially run without terminating. This patch removes the loop,
> instead erroring out if vfs_readdir() on the lower file fails.

I assumed this was for-2.6.28.