2024-04-01 11:05:39

by Wang Yugui

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Subject: one more patch(nfsd: fix potential race in nfs4_find_file) for 6.1.83+ ?

Hi,

We had 13 nfsd patches in 6.1.83, do we need one more patch(*1)?

*1:
bd6aaf781dae :Jeff Layton: nfsd: fix potential race in nfs4_find_file

Best Regards
Wang Yugui ([email protected])
2024/04/01




2024-04-01 13:48:06

by Chuck Lever

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Subject: Re: one more patch(nfsd: fix potential race in nfs4_find_file) for 6.1.83+ ?



> On Apr 1, 2024, at 7:05 AM, Wang Yugui <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We had 13 nfsd patches in 6.1.83, do we need one more patch(*1)?
>
> *1:
> bd6aaf781dae :Jeff Layton: nfsd: fix potential race in nfs4_find_file

This one went in after v6.2 (where I drew a line in
the sand) and looked more like a clean-up than a bug fix.

Is the kernel misbehaving? Why do you believe this one
needs to be backported?


--
Chuck Lever


2024-04-01 23:21:02

by Wang Yugui

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Subject: Re: one more patch(nfsd: fix potential race in nfs4_find_file) for 6.1.83+ ?

Hi,

>
> > On Apr 1, 2024, at 7:05?AM, Wang Yugui <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > We had 13 nfsd patches in 6.1.83, do we need one more patch(*1)?
> >
> > *1:
> > bd6aaf781dae :Jeff Layton: nfsd: fix potential race in nfs4_find_file
>
> This one went in after v6.2 (where I drew a line in
> the sand) and looked more like a clean-up than a bug fix.
>
> Is the kernel misbehaving? Why do you believe this one
> needs to be backported?

Yet not find any kernel misbehaving.

just fs/nfsd/filecache.c related.

Best Regards
Wang Yugui ([email protected])
2024/04/02