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Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 06:15:41 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Qingfang Deng <dqfext@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.10 0/5] kernfs: backport locking and concurrency
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On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 09:53:30AM +0800, Qingfang Deng wrote:
> KCSAN reports concurrent accesses to inode->i_mode:

<snip>

Yes, but can you actually trigger this issue with a real workload?  How
were these tested in the 5.10 tree, and if this is a problem, can you
just move to a newer release instead?

thanks,

greg k-h