Thread (17 messages) 17 messages, 4 authors, 2016-03-29

Re: [PATCH 5/5] ext4 crypto: use dget_parent() in ext4_d_revalidate()

From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: 2016-03-27 18:16:05
Also in: linux-fsdevel, stable

On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 10:02:46AM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 10:10 PM, Theodore Ts'o [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
This avoids potential problems caused by a race where the inode gets
renamed out from its parent directory and the parent directory is
deleted while ext4_d_revalidate() is running.

Fixes: 28b4c263961c
Full Fixes-tag...

Fixes: 28b4c263961c ("ext4 crypto: revalidate dentry after adding or
removing the key")
quoted
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
This for Linux v4.6(-rc1+) ?
Probably v4.6-rc2 at this point, since I'm still waiting for acks from
folks.

						- Ted
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