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Linux 3.0 Release Delayed

Posted by timothy on from the wait-for-it-wait-for-it dept.

JustinRLynn writes "A recent Google+ Post by Linus Torvalds indicates that version 3.0 of the Linux kernel will have to wait due to the discovery of a 'subtle pathname lookup bug.' Linus indicates, 'We have a patch, we understand the problem, and it looks ObviouslyCorrect(tm), but I don't think I want to release 3.0 just a couple of hours after applying it.'"

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  1. Re:Path names? Bah. by NotBorg · · Score: 4, Informative

    No. The topic is actually just Linux. Also, it's not uncommon for Linus to hold off on a release if things aren't "quiet" enough.

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  2. Here's what the bug was! by Theovon · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sadly, I don't understand the explanation or what the patch changes.

    https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/17/103

    1. Re:Here's what the bug was! by FlyingGuy · · Score: 5, Informative

      Ok, from my reading of the patch which could be WAY the fuck wrong BTW, I think it is a race condition between the unlinking of a file and returning the inode to the pool AND the CP command ( copy a file ) traversing the inode list. In other words the CP command was trying to stat a file that was partially unlinked do to the update of the node list still being in progress.

      If you still don't understand that don't feel bad, I had to read and re-read the note like 10 times before I probably got this explanation wrong.

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  3. Here's what the bug was! by FrootLoops · · Score: 5, Informative

    https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/17/103

    [Posted by Theovon earlier, but I prefer a clickable link.]