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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc-ns: Use d_set_d_op() API to set dentry ops in proc_ns_instantiate().
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:17:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120322161734.2a22f3ba.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331690897-26496-1-git-send-email-jesse@nicira.com>

On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:08:17 -0700
Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> wrote:

> From: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
> 
> Use d_set_d_op() so that DCACHE_OP_* flags are set correctly which fixes ns
> cleanup path i.e. `ip netns delete `.
> 
> This issue exists back to 3.0.

What does "fixes" mean?  Please provide a full description of the
user-visible impact of the bug, so that others can ascertain whether
the patch will fix a problem which they're seeing and so that people
like me can work out which kernel versions we should merge it into.

Thanks.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-22 23:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-14  2:08 Jesse Gross
2012-03-14 18:43 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-16 20:34   ` Jesse Gross
2012-03-22 23:17 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-02-23  4:05 Pravin B Shelar

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