Bug#993738: udev: symlink creation race condition can cause log delays

[Michael Biebl]

Am 05.09.21 um 21:02 schrieb Lukas Schwaighofer:
> Hi,
> 
>> Thanks for finding that! I'll report back once I've had a chance to
>> try this.
> 
> The attached PR is quite large and I wasn't able to apply it against
> the version now in bullseye, and I don't want to change to a different
> systemd/udev altogether. Carefully reading the descriptions I'm
> confident that this is indeed the same issue. I have a workaround in
> place now that doesn't have any drawbacks for me. I'll just stick with
> that for now.

Hm, an alternative could be to revert the offending commits, i.e. the 
ones listed in
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/20212#issue-942476183

This is apparently what was done for RHEL8 (by the author of those patches).

Michael

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