Re: [PATCH] configfs: Fix race between create_link and configfs_rmdir

From: Bryant G. Ly
Date: Thu Jun 08 2017 - 08:34:14 EST


Thanks Nic,

applied to the configfs-for-next tree. I'm not entirely sure if we
should bother adding this to 4.12 or if it hits rarely enough?

It hits for us pretty often when we have a GPFS setup with 10 hosts and 1k+ vms.

That is how we discovered the bug in the first place.

-Bryant