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    [PATCH] namei fixes · 90ebe565
    Al Viro authored
    OK, here comes a patch series that hopefully should close all
    too-early-mntput() races in fs/namei.c.  Entire area is convoluted as hell, so
    I'm splitting that series into _very_ small chunks.
    
    Patches alread in the tree close only (very wide) races in following symlinks
    (see "busy inodes after umount" thread some time ago).  Unfortunately, quite a
    few narrower races of the same nature were not closed.  Hopefully this should
    take care of all of them.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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