Linux 3.0 Delayed for Late Breaking Patch

“Why do we always find the subtle bugs just before a
release?

Looks like I won’t be releasing 3.0 today, just because Hugh
found this incredibly subtle pathname lookup bug. 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.

Of course, the bug is so hard to see that Hugh needs weeks to
reproduce it even with his stress test, so we could just ignore it
and backport the fix later. But I really hate making releases with
known issues even if it’s almost certainly a “nobody will ever hit
this in practice” issue.

Oh well.

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