From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Subject: shmem_rename() bugs (was Re: 6.19 tmpfs __d_lookup() lockup)
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2025 03:27:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251214032734.GL1712166@ZenIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251213072241.GH1712166@ZenIV>
On Sat, Dec 13, 2025 at 07:22:41AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> What I'm going to do is a couple of patches - one fixing
> the regression in this cycle (pretty much what you'd been testing),
> then a separate fix for stable offsets failure handling (present
> since 2023). I'll feed them to Linus; I hoped to do that with
> old regression fixed first, to reduce the PITA for backports,
> but if I don't have that debugged tomorrow, I'll send the recent
> regression fix first.
OK, I think I've got it; see
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git #fixes
individual patches in followups; the first one deals with this cycle
regression, the second - with older bug in shmem_rename() failure
exits.
Folks, please review. If nobody objects, I'll send a pull request on
Monday.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-14 3:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-12 3:56 6.19 tmpfs __d_lookup() lockup Hugh Dickins
2025-12-12 5:02 ` Al Viro
2025-12-12 5:15 ` Hugh Dickins
2025-12-12 5:34 ` Al Viro
2025-12-12 5:57 ` Hugh Dickins
2025-12-12 6:30 ` Al Viro
2025-12-12 7:17 ` Hugh Dickins
2025-12-12 10:12 ` Hugh Dickins
2025-12-13 7:22 ` Al Viro
2025-12-14 3:27 ` Al Viro [this message]
2025-12-14 3:30 ` [PATCH 1/2] shmem_whiteout(): fix regression from tree-in-dcache series Al Viro
2025-12-14 3:30 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/2] shmem: fix recovery on rename failures Al Viro
2025-12-15 7:38 ` Hugh Dickins
2025-12-15 11:58 ` Christian Brauner
2025-12-15 16:03 ` Chuck Lever
2025-12-15 16:54 ` Al Viro
2025-12-16 6:02 ` [git pull] shmem rename fixes Al Viro
2025-12-16 8:04 ` pr-tracker-bot
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