Re: [PATCH] devpts: Fix NULL pointer dereference in dcache_readdir()

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 9:52 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Dang, I thought this already got merged. But we only discussed it
> extensively and I guess it got delayed by all the discussions about
> possible fixes for the d_lock contention.

Side note: I'm not all _that_ worried about the d_lock contention
thing, simply because the regression report was from an artificial
benchmark, and it was on a 144-core machine.

Compared to the Oops, it's not really a thing.

            Linus