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Bug 427472

Summary: Backport patch from 2.6.19 allowing fs' to manually d_move() inside of ->rename()
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran>
Component: kernelAssignee: Peter Staubach <staubach>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Martin Jenner <mjenner>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 5.2CC: coughlan, mark.fasheh, steved
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: RHBA-2008-0314 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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[PATCH] Allow file systems to manually d_move() inside of ->rename()
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Description Sunil Mushran 2008-01-04 02:06:35 UTC 
Description of problem:
Click on the link for the description of the problem and the ensuing discussion.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=115689222430028&w=2

This issue was addressed in 2.6.19 in mainline.
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=349457ccf2592c14bdf13b6706170ae2e94931b1

The patch has also been attached.

This is a request for adding this patch to RHEL5 U2.


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Comment 1 Sunil Mushran 2008-01-04 02:06:35 UTC 
Created attachment 290811 [details]
[PATCH] Allow file systems to manually d_move() inside of ->rename()
Comment 2 Peter Staubach 2008-01-18 20:08:17 UTC 
Created attachment 292196 [details]
Proposed patch
Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2008-01-18 20:17:12 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.
Comment 6 Don Zickus 2008-01-22 18:52:06 UTC 
in 2.6.18-72.el5
You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5
Comment 7 Sunil Mushran 2008-01-23 02:31:58 UTC 
Thanks. It looks good.
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2008-05-21 15:05:39 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0314.html