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Re: [PATCH 0/5][BUGFIX] configfs: Fix deadlock of rename() vs rmdir()

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From: Joel Becker
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5][BUGFIX] configfs: Fix deadlock of rename() vs rmdir()
Date: Monday, June 23, 2008 - 3:34 pm

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 04:26:57PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:

	Btw, we still need to solve the lockdep issue.  I'm leaning
towards turning it off for attach/detach_groups(), because any CHILD+N
level won't mesh with the VFS anyway.
	We also need a comment on detach_group() pointing out its
recursive locking.  It's there in the code, but it's not obvious.

Joel

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[PATCH 0/5][BUGFIX] configfs: Fix deadlock of rename() vs ..., Louis Rilling, (Mon Jun 16, 10:00 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][BUGFIX] configfs: Fix deadlock of rename() ..., Joel Becker, (Mon Jun 16, 4:26 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][BUGFIX] configfs: Fix deadlock of rename() ..., Joel Becker, (Mon Jun 23, 3:34 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5][BUGFIX] configfs: Fix deadlock of rename() ..., Louis Rilling, (Tue Jun 24, 6:30 am)