From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261292AbVESWzk (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2005 18:55:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261289AbVESWzk (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2005 18:55:40 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:47778 "EHLO parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261284AbVESWzf (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2005 18:55:35 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCHSET] namei fixes Cc: akpm@osdl.org Message-Id: From: Al Viro Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 23:56:00 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org OK, here comes a patch series that hopefully should close all too-early-mntput() races in fs/namei.c. Entire area is convoluted as hell, so I'm splitting that series into _very_ small chunks. Patches alread in the tree close only (very wide) races in following symlinks (see "busy inodes after umount" thread some time ago). Unfortunately, quite a few narrower races of the same nature were not closed. Hopefully this should take care of all of them. Please, review and test. It survives local beating and AFAICS it's correct, but that's a hell of a critical area. Extra eyes would be very welcome. Patches will be sent in separate mails; they are also available on ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/people/viro/NAMEI*. Series is based at 2.6.12-rc4 and yes, there are 19 patches in it.