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Revision 2159184ea01e4ae7d15f2017e296d4bc82d5aeb0 authored by Al Viro on 29 May 2015, 03:09:19 UTC, committed by Al Viro on 29 May 2015, 03:45:30 UTC
when we find that a child has died while we'd been trying to ascend,
we should go into the first live sibling itself, rather than its sibling.

Off-by-one in question had been introduced in "deal with deadlock in
d_walk()" and the fix needs to be backported to all branches this one
has been backported to.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.2 and later
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Tip revision: 2159184ea01e4ae7d15f2017e296d4bc82d5aeb0 authored by Al Viro on 29 May 2015, 03:09:19 UTC
d_walk() might skip too much
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